Amanda’s Story

Amanda was born into the world of music, dance, and theatre thanks to parents in the performing arts. Having spent most of her childhood in the studios of New Jersey Ballet, her parents’ decision to relocate to Colorado inspired new love of musical theater and unconventional venues (Shakespeare Festivals on 16th Street Mall, anyone?). 

Amanda studied dance, theater, choreography and education while appearing onstage at the Oriental Theater, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. While in college, Amanda felt called to pursue mental healthcare, obtaining a Masters of Science degree in Counseling and becoming a Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher specializing in Somatic and Attachment healing with attunement to the Autonomic Nervous System. 

or over a decade, Amanda worked in the nonprofit sector, providing therapy, case management, and support to women and children with trauma. As luck would have it, she was approached inappropriately about a simulated sex scene for a local production which lead to a conversation with a trusted colleague who said, “First of all, don’t take that job and second of all, you’d be an excellent Intimacy Coordinator!’ and the rest, as they say, is history.

In 2020, Amanda decided to unite her love of acting and choreography (having now expanded into film, print and commercial work) with her knowledge of trauma, somatic awareness, the body and its boundaries, and client advocacy to embrace the new role of Intimacy Coordinator and then pioneering and defining the role of Mental Health Coordinator for film. 

She still serves clients with trauma and other mental health conditions in her private practice located in Parker, Colorado in between productions on-location across the country.