Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
How Amanda works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience who helps people pause and make sense of fast-paced lives. She invites clients to step away from daily demands and tell their story in a calm, attentive space. Her manner is warm and grounded, making room for both laughter and difficult feelings.
Amanda uses a blend of approaches that focus on relationships, inner meaning, and present awareness. She pays attention to how early attachments shape current patterns and helps people notice thoughts and bodily signals.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at uncovering values and choices that matter to each person. Over her career she has worked in schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice. That variety informs a flexible style that fits different life stages and situations.
Amanda describes herself as a fellow traveler who holds time and space for someone's personal journey. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in relationships. She also helps with issues like anger, parenting strain, addiction concerns, body image, and caregiving stress.
Amanda draws on mindfulness and narrative work to help clients find practical ways to cope and reflect. Sessions are available remotely to people in New Jersey and internationally. Amanda encourages clients to use therapy time to reassess values, explore meaning, and make changes that feel true to their lives.
What Amanda works with
Everything Amanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Amanda's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach and accessibility through online therapy
Amanda uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current behavior and expectations. This helps people understand recurring conflicts, trust issues, and ways of connecting with others.She also works from a Client-Centered perspective, focusing on listening closely and following each person's concerns and goals. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they explore choices and values.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend a path that fits. That collaboration includes checking in and adjusting methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging offers ongoing written reflection. These options allow people to access licensed professionals from home, work, or while traveling and make scheduling easier around daily responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
Amanda works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, anger, and life changes. She also supports those facing addiction concerns, body image struggles, parenting strain, and caregiving stress.
What is Amanda's therapy style like?
Her style is conversational, reflective, and client-centered. She combines attention to relationships and meaning with mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns and make practical changes.
How much experience does the counselor have?
Amanda has 17 years of clinical experience across schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice. That range shapes a flexible approach for different life situations.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in New Jersey. Her training and work history include a variety of community and clinical settings.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted for remote work.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This allows flexibility to choose a format that fits daily schedules and communication preferences.
How is cost and billing handled?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Amanda?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.