About Amanda
Amanda Pisark welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or major life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania and focuses on clear, practical steps to make day-to-day life feel more manageable. She spent several years as a social worker in hospice care and retirement communities.
That experience shaped her interest in grief, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and the effects of illness and loss.
How Amanda works
She works with adults across the lifespan and helps them name how life events affect thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In sessions she listens closely and invites clients to steer the conversation while offering questions and observations. That back-and-forth is meant to open new viewpoints and help clients better understand reactions to relationships, work, and health challenges.
Over time she partners with clients to set short- and long-term goals that feel realistic. Practical tools and homework are part of her approach. She may suggest exercises between sessions to build coping skills and reduce overwhelm.
Clients learn techniques they can use when stress, anxiety, or grief becomes intense. Amanda uses a mix of approaches to match individual needs, often drawing on acceptance-focused strategies, attachment ideas, emotion work, and cognitive techniques. Her style aims to be steady and collaborative while moving at a pace that fits each person.
She helps people clarify who they are, what they want, and next steps toward a better daily life.
Amanda lists 12 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and remote care
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centered methods. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotion regulation, which is useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and family-related stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client guides the work and the therapist reflects and clarifies to support insight.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will discuss your goals, try ideas, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She collaborates with clients to combine methods when helpful and to move at a pace that feels manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit during a commute or a work break and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make scheduling more flexible and can help maintain consistency during busy or unpredictable periods.
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