About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko, LPC offers a calm space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She invites clients to pause, share their story, and reflect on what matters. Sessions are meant to be a break from the to-do list where emotions can be named and felt without rush.
Amanda brings 17 years of clinical experience across schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice. She has sat with people facing depression, bipolar challenges, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and questions about identity and belonging.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds, body image, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. In session she uses person-centered conversation alongside attachment-focused work and mindfulness practices. Clients can expect gentle curiosity, listening, and questions that help connect current struggles to past patterns.
She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to help people find meaning and personal direction. Amanda frames therapy as a collaborative journey rather than a set of rigid steps. She helps people notice patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice small changes between sessions.
Practical coping strategies for sleep, eating, anger, and focus are offered when useful. She works with people across a wide range of life stages and challenges and accepts international clients. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit varied schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Amanda uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions; this helps people understand patterns in close relationships and in how they handle stress. Client-centered therapy provides a listening, nonjudgmental space where the client’s voice and pace guide the work, which can be especially useful for building trust and self-understanding in remote sessions. Mindfulness techniques are also used to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce anxiety and improve sleep and focus.Finding the best approach is collaborative. Amanda will talk with clients about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until something fits. The process often begins with listening and small experiments to see what helps in daily life, then adjusting based on what the person finds useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper, conversational work and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support short reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing check-ins between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to keep continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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