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Amanda is a NYC-based psychotherapist and yoga teacher who is passionate about supporting adolescents, families and adults.

Why Therapy +Yoga + Meditation?

Live a Life of Balance + Meaning

Overall Wellbeing

Find what works best for you - and stick with it! Improve your quality of life.

Feel Happy for No Reason

Find joy in the little things.

Stress Reduction

Learn practical tools that will allow you to thrive amidst everyday stressors or challenges.

What's Y-CBT?

(Yoga - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

The Y-CBT integrative group treatment model addresses the symptoms of anxiety and depression by combining traditional psychotherapy with yogic practices and philosophies, didactic material, and group process.

Improve

Relationships

Explore forgiveness. Respond to frustrations with a sense of clarity - whether with family, friends, or coworkers.

Sleep Better

Just 20 minutes of mindful meditation each day can increase the relaxation response, leading to better sleep.

Meet Amanda

Therapist, Yoga & Meditation Teacher

Amanda is passionate about providing individuals with tools that enable them to activate and maintain self care. Her therapeutic approach is holistic, warm, and individually tailored. Amanda is easy to talk to and will help you with strengthening both your intrapersonal and interpersonal skills to ultimately live a fuller and more meaningful life. Amanda will support you with finding clarity with your goals and ways to practically attain them.

Amanda has experience providing evidence-based individual, group, and family therapy in the elementary and middle school settings. Amanda also provides behavioral, social/emotional and academic support to high school and college aged students and families. She has supported children and families through offering therapeutic services at UCLA's Partial Hospitalization Program and Bellevue Hospital's Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit.

Since 2010, Amanda has led various therapeutic yoga programs including:

Y-CBT classes for adults with anxiety & depression
Group classes at Bellevue Hospital's Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
Group classes for youth who are Homeless and At-Risk at Covenant House, NYC
Group classes for adults living with cancer at the John Theurer Cancer Center
Group classes for students in the Paterson Public Schools
Individual bedside meditation, breathing, or yoga sessions to children living with cancer at Hackensack University Medical Center
Private sessions, group classes, and summer camp programs for children with autism
Chair yoga classes for adults with mental illnesses at Care Plus, NJ

Amanda Sacks, RYT 500, completed her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Naturally Yoga & her 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at YogaWorks. Amanda received her Bachelor's in Social Work from New York University & her Master's in Social Work from the University of Southern California.

Work With Amanda

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Private Yoga Session

Schedule your private or semiprivate yoga session. Amanda offers vinyasa flow, gentle yoga, therapeutic yoga & meditation classes. Now offering Zoom Yoga sessions for individuals, families, kids and teens.

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Y-CBT Group or Individual

Amanda leads individual Yoga-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy sessions and 6 week Y-CBT groups for adults or teens struggling with anxiety and depression. Amanda also leads one time Y-CBT workshops.

Y-CBT was created by Julie Greiner-Ferris, LICSW & Manjit Kaur Khalsa, EdD