Amanda Santiago, Clinical Supervisor
Amanda is the clinical supervisor for all non-independently licensed clinicians who provide mental health services at Land of Mañana Counseling
Amanda is a Northern California native who moved to New Mexico in 2012. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who graduated from Smith College, School for Social Work. Amanda has 17 years of clinical experience working with adults, pre-teens, adolescents, couples, and families. Her clinical specialties include helping those faced with issues of attachment, anxiety, depression, family cohesiveness and reunification, adoption, postpartum depression, incarceration, and trauma.
Amanda approaches her clinical practice and supervisory work from a relational perspective which draws from attachment theory, structural family therapy, and object relations to best inform and deepen her work with others. Amanda is intrigued by the dimensions of the client-therapist relationship, with a particular focus on the impact and use of transference and countertransference within the clinical process. When not working, Amanda enjoys running, listening to podcasts, watching biographies and performing songs and dancing for her fur babies.