Amanda Burback

The moment most people contact Amanda Burback is the one where holding it all together stops working. They’re accomplished, capable, and exhausted — carrying anxiety, depression, addiction, or the weight of unprocessed trauma beneath a surface that looks fine to everyone else. Amanda is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Los Angeles who works with adults caught in that gap between outward success and internal depletion, including those whose compulsive patterns have migrated online — endless scrolling, gaming, or gambling that scratches the same itch as older habits.

Her therapeutic style is warm, engaged, and genuinely collaborative, built on the conviction that real progress happens when sessions feel like a place to exhale rather than perform. She draws on EMDR to help clients process experiences stored in the body long after memory fades, and weaves in CBT and DBT for practical skill-building around emotional regulation, boundaries, and self-compassion. What she’s attending to beneath all of it is the perfectionism and people-pleasing that quietly drives burnout, self-doubt, and disconnection from one’s own sense of direction.

Amanda founded Mellow Therapy around a simple premise: that the work goes better when it’s honest, human, and even occasionally funny. Online sessions are available.