About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko offers a calm space for people who feel overwhelmed by life’s pace. She invites clients to pause, tell their story, and notice what matters most. Amanda encourages simple reflection without pressure and uses conversation to sort through feelings and decisions.
Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 17 years of experience. She has worked in schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice settings. That variety shaped a flexible, down-to-earth style that adapts to each person's needs.
How Amanda works
Sessions often begin by talking about what feels most urgent. Amanda listens closely and helps people name emotions, identify patterns, and try small steps that can change daily life. She blends insight about relationships with practical ways to manage stress, mood, and difficult choices.
Her work draws on attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices to help people feel steadier. Amanda also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches to help clients explore meaning, identity, and life purpose. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, parenting stress, body image, and work or career questions.
Amanda accepts international clients and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Amanda lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Amanda works with
The areas below are the ones Amanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. This helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeating the same relationship behaviors. She also practices client-centered therapy which centers on careful listening and meeting each person where they are; this approach is useful when someone needs a calm, nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and decisions.Mindfulness is another part of her work, offering simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques are helpful for anxiety, stress, and managing intense emotions. Together these approaches help people explore meaning, improve daily coping, and test small changes over time.
Finding the right fit is a shared process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, and then adjust methods as needed. Amanda treats this as ongoing collaboration rather than a fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit schedules, travel, or shorter workday breaks while keeping therapy practical and accessible.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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