Amanda’s training and experience in Mental Health and Intimacy Coordination is International and she’s learned from some of the most highly regarded pioneers in the field. Her passion for the work has her collaborating with productions across all genres, platforms, and budgets as she believes firmly that every production which requires Mental Health or Intimacy Coordination absolutely deserves to have that support.
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.
For 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.
Experience + Education
MENTAL HEALTH & INTIMACY COORDINATION
- Duster, HBO and Warner Bros episodic
- Welcome to the Fishbowl, By and Large Media, feature
- Six Hunts, Eshow Media, feature
- Breeding, John Westwood, feature
- Are You Ready for This Love? Jack Dawkins/Art House Ops, Music Video
- Head, Black Sparrow Media, Independent Short
- Reed Gig, Independent Short
- Her Mother’s Eyes, Sawyer Macres, Independent Short
- Dippy Club, Dream City, short
- Black Diamond, Black Poppy Productions, feature
- 15, Melody Brooke, Independent Short
- Library, November Films, Independent Feature
- Team Good Good, Independent episodic
- Zaryn (filmed version), Denver Fringe Festival
TRAINING
- Intimacy Coordination Certification: Intimacy Professionals Association
- Intimacy Direction and Coordination: IPA, TIE, IDC, NSIP, ICC, ISS, Heartland
- Acting: PEAK Acting Studios, The AC
- Monologue: Molly Dobbs, The Actors Community
- Scene Study: Harry McEntire, The Actors Community
- Modern, Ballet: Cleo Parker Robinson Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
- Voice (mezzo-soprano): University of Northern Colorado
WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
- Mental Health Coordinator Training with the Association of Mental Health Coordinators
- Self-Care and Burnout Prevention for Intimacy Professionals
- “How to be a Safe Grown-Up: Working with Minors in Entertainment”
- Intimacy: Self-Advocacy and Boundaries for Actors (exclusively presented for The Actors Community)
- Secondary Trauma in Intimacy Professionals
- Trauma from Within and Without for Educators and Caregivers
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Yoga
- Dance and Mindful Movement
SKILLS
- Intimacy Director and Coordinator
- Mental Health Coordinator
- Singing (pop, musical theatre)
- COVID Compliance Officer
- Certified Yoga Instructor
- Copy/Commercial Writer/Editor
- Ballet/Modern/Jazz Dance and Choreography
- Voiceover
INTIMACY SPECIFIC/SAG RECOMMENDED EDUCATION
- Intimacy Coordination Certification: Intimacy Professionals Association
- Consent Training • Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Theatrical Intimacy Education
- Anti-harassment/anti-sexual harassment training • Hollaback!
- Movement coaching and masking techniques • TIE, IDC, Intimacy for Stage and Screen
- Proper use of modesty garments and barriers • TIE, ISS, Heartland Intimacy and Design
- Mediation or conflict resolution training • as required as a Licensed Professional Counselor
- Gender identity & sexual orientation training • by the World Professional Assn for Transgender Health
- Anti-Racist/EDI training • A Lifetime in Quarantine-The Black Doula, TIE
- Bystander intervention • Hollaback!
- Mental Health First Aid, Trauma • education required as a Licensed Professional Counselor
- Certified COVID Compliance Officer
- Certified Intimacy Captain by Intimacy Coordinators of Color
- CPR/First Aid Certified
OTHER LICENSURE AND EDUCATION
- Licensed Professional Counselor, DORA
- EMDR, Advanced Certification Training, Personal Transformation Institute
- Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Child Trauma Academy, Dr. Bruce Perry
- Licensed School Counselor and Authorized Substitute Teacher, Colorado Department of Education
- Masters of Science Degree, Counseling, 2010
- Certified Yoga Teacher, Therapeutic Yoga, 2008
- BA, Sociology, 2006