Amanda Cantu

Amanda Cantu is the Assistant Clinic Director at The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Endeavors in San Antonio. In this role, she helps lead the clinical team and ensures the delivery of high-quality behavioral health services to veterans, active-duty service members, and their families.

Amanda earned her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University in 2015. She began her career providing mental health services to children and adults in a community mental health setting in the Rio Grande Valley. She became a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas in 2017 and earned her Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) credential in 2022, allowing her to mentor and supervise counselors pursuing licensure.

Amanda has extensive experience providing therapy to individuals, couples, and children. She specializes in trauma-informed care and is trained in a variety of evidence-based treatment approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), Motivational Interviewing (MI), play therapy, CBT for Eating Disorders (CBT-E), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).

Before joining The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Endeavors, Amanda served as a Supervisory Licensed Professional Counselor with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in San Antonio, Texas, within the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program. Since beginning her work with veterans in 2021, she has remained dedicated to serving veterans, service members, and their families, helping them navigate life's challenges with compassionate, evidence-based care.