About Amanda
Amanda Alleman is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 13 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and on everyday challenges like relationships, parenting, and family conflict. She presents therapy as a straightforward process and asks clients to bring their goals and strengths to each session.
She works from the view that people are the experts on their own lives. Sessions aim to notice what is already working and build practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Amanda uses clear, goal-focused conversations rather than long lectures or jargon-heavy explanations. Therapy sessions often include setting small, manageable goals between meetings. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with realistic alternatives.
Motivational interviewing techniques help when people feel stuck or unsure about change. Amanda also draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to keep work practical. That means listening carefully, asking helpful questions, and deciding together on actions that fit daily life.
She emphasizes compassion and understanding at each step. Her approach is suited to people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, anger, or major life changes. Amanda supports clients through career pressures, intimacy-related issues, and the strain that caregiving or blended family situations can cause.
She encourages steady progress and checks in regularly about what is helping. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to the person's needs. Amanda aims to make the first steps simple: set a goal, try an action, and review what changed.
The focus stays on real-life results and what a person wants next.
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Amanda frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy in her online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot patterns of thought that increase anxiety or stress and then test small changes to those thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and perspectives and focuses on listening and reflective guidance to help people find their own solutions.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan when needed. The emphasis is on working together to choose methods that feel useful and doable in everyday life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits in this practice. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or follow-up between sessions easier. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work focused and action-oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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