Amanda Smith Fierstein^LCSW^School Program Coordinator

Amanda Smith Fierstein, LCSW
School Program Coordinator

Amanda began her studies in Florida in 2004 where she earned her B.S. in Psychology and worked on Human Factors & Cognitive Psychology Research. She came to Aspen in 2011, where she fell in love with the Roaring Fork Valley. She was introduced to the Aspen Hope Center after attending a suicide prevention training and became the Hope Center’s first intern.

From 2011 to 2013, Amanda was the Outreach and Education Coordinator for the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation until going to graduate school in 2013. While attending the University of Denver she worked at Response, the organization for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. With Response she was trained to be an DV Advocate and was an on-call volunteer for the crisis hotline. She also focused on developing and co-facilitating presentations on gender equality, consent, bullying, and women’s mental mental wellness via financial wellness.

In 2014 she began working at the Hope Center as the Intake Coordinator and at Aspen Valley Hospital as a social work intern. After completing her Masters in Social Work program, Amanda joined the Hope Center as a Crisis Clinician, Suicide-prevention trainer and a school-based clinician in several schools including Carbondale Community School and Riverview School. Amanda remains connected to social work roots, particularly attentive to the ways power and oppression impacts health and is committed to equity in her community.

In her life outside of work, she loves being with her husband and children for family skiing, hiking and popcorn movie nights. Amanda is an artist at heart with an eye for aesthetics and loves interior design, renovation projects, painting, drawing, and photography.