- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko, LPC, offers a calm, steady presence for people feeling overwhelmed by daily demands. She invites clients to pause, tell their story, and sort through strong emotions without judgment. Her tone is warm and conversational so people can feel heard quickly.
Amanda aims to help people reconnect with meaning and direction amid life’s shifts. With 17 years as a licensed professional counselor, Amanda has worked in schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice in New Jersey.
Background and approach
That range of settings gives her practical experience with many life circumstances and stressors. She pays attention to the whole person, not just a single problem, and values each person’s unique story. Amanda uses approaches that emphasize relationships, awareness, and personal meaning.
Her work often focuses on attachment patterns, mindful presence, personal values, and how life stories shape identity. Sessions typically involve listening, gentle questioning, and helping clients notice patterns that influence feelings and choices. Parents reading this will find that Amanda includes parenting concerns among the issues she addresses.
She helps people think through parenting stress, blended family dynamics, fatherhood questions, and the strain of caregiver responsibilities in everyday terms. She also supports people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, body image and eating issues, sleep problems, ADHD, and career or relationship concerns. Amanda encourages practical steps and small experiments between sessions to try new ways of relating and behaving.
Amanda invites people to take a time out from the to-do list, bring a cup of tea, and talk about what matters. She frames therapy as a shared journey where meaning and purpose can be rediscovered.
What Amanda works with
Everything Amanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amanda helps people with.
- 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.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Amanda often draws on attachment-based work to look at how early and close relationships shape current reactions and patterns. This approach can help people understand why certain situations trigger strong feelings and how to build more supported ways of relating.She also uses client-centered methods that focus on listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals. This approach helps people feel understood and trusted while they decide what changes matter most to them.
Mindfulness-based practices are part of her toolkit as well, offering simple breathing and awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques are useful for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and managing difficult emotions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest paths to try. Together they adjust methods as the work evolves so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people connect face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, brief reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people maintain consistency and try therapy in the way that fits their schedule and comfort.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, body image and eating issues, sleep problems, ADHD, and many parenting-related challenges.
What is Amanda's general therapy style?
Her style is warm, conversational, and collaborative. Sessions emphasize listening, noticing patterns, and trying small practical steps between visits.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Amanda has 17 years of experience working across schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice in New Jersey.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She is an LPC - licensed professional counselor - practicing in New Jersey.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
How can sessions be conducted?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in getting started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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