Sandpiper Counseling: helping you find peace along life’s shores.
Welcome to Sandpiper Counseling
Life doesn’t always move in straight lines. Like the shoreline, it shifts with each new wave—and during seasons of change, it’s easy to feel anxious, stuck, caught in overthinking, or unsure of what’s next.
Counseling can help.
I’m Amanda Whichard, and my goal is to help you find relief from anxiety, OCD, and trauma.
Therapy here is gentle, grounded, and faith-welcoming—offering a calm space to pause, breathe again, and rediscover your strength as you move forward.
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Anxiety Therapy
Quiet the constant worry and learn to feel grounded again. Together, we’ll develop calm, mindful ways to manage stress and overthinking.
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Trauma Therapy
Heal from the weight of the past with gentle, evidence-based support. EMDR helps your mind and body find peace again.
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OCD Therapy
OCD can trap you in scary “what-if” thoughts that feel real. With the right support, you can break that loop and feel calmer, more grounded, and back in control.
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Christian Counseling
If faith is an important part of your life, your sessions can include prayer and Scripture—always at your pace, always your choice.
Services
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Talk Therapy
We can meet in person, through telehealth, or outside with Walk & Talk sessions. My goal is to support your healing in the way that feels most natural and comfortable for you. Some clients feel grounded in the office, others find clarity outdoors, and many appreciate the ease of connecting from home.
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EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps your brain and body release the grip of painful memories. You don’t have to relive the details to heal — just take each step at a pace that feels safe and steady, until peace begins to return.
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iCBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) offers a fresh way to tackle OCD — not by simply managing anxiety or forcing through uncertainty, but by helping you see how obsessive doubts are often born in the mind, not reality. By tracing how false “what-if” reasoning mis-leads our judgment, I-CBT gently guides you back to trusting your senses and rebooting your thinking process. Whether your obsessions focus on harm, morality, contamination, relationships, or order, this approach helps unravel the root reasoning behind them — so you can reclaim clarity, calm, and control.
Amanda Whichard, Licensed Professional Counselor
Meet Amanda Whichard, LPC — a compassionate and grounded Gulfport, MS therapist who specializes in helping young adults and women find calm, clarity, and confidence through evidence-based counseling. Amanda works with clients ages 18 and up and specializes in anxiety, trauma, OCD, and faith-optional Christian counseling.
Having walked through her own challenges, Amanda experienced firsthand how therapy can provide a safe, supportive space to process the past and build tools she didn’t learn growing up. She believes counseling is a place for healing and growth—not something to feel shame about—and that everyone deserves support during difficult seasons.
Take the next step.
Taking the first step is often the hardest. When you're ready, schedule a session and start moving toward the peace and clarity you’ve been longing for.