- ACT
- CBT
- Emotion-focused work
About Amanda
Amanda Pisark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Pennsylvania with seven years of experience. She works with adults facing relationship distress, grief, trauma, anxiety, stress, and challenges with self-esteem and intimacy. Amanda often supports people dealing with life transitions, caregiver strain, and career-related concerns.
Amanda draws on a mix of practical talk and reflective listening. She begins by asking why someone is seeking help and what they hope to change. From there she and the person set short- and long-term goals together. Sessions invite the client to guide the conversation while Amanda offers questions and observations to open new perspectives.
Her background includes years as a social worker in hospice and retirement settings. That work shaped her interest in grief, aging and caregiver stress, and in helping people manage the emotional weight of loss and life change. She also works with trauma, attachment issues, and the ways chronic illness or caregiving affect mood and relationships.
Over time Amanda helps people build coping skills and practical tools. She may suggest brief exercises to practice between meetings, aimed at increasing awareness and reducing impulsive or compulsive reactions. The focus is on small, usable strategies that fit into daily life.
People come for many reasons: communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, or overwhelm from multiple roles. Amanda’s approach mixes cognitive and emotion-focused methods to address both thinking patterns and close relationship dynamics.
How Amanda integrates therapy approaches online
Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is practical for people facing shame, guilt, or avoidance because it focuses on what matters and small steps toward those values. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and close relationships affect current patterns. This approach helps with intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and attachment difficulties by identifying relational patterns and their emotional roots. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will discuss your goals and preferences and help decide which methods to emphasize. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change. Confirm the session formats offered before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. It also lets sessions occur from different locations and can help sustain continuity of care when life circumstances change. Licensed professionals adapt pacing, homework, and exercises to fit remote sessions so tools can be practiced between meetings.Areas of expertise
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship struggles, grief, trauma, anxiety, stress, self-esteem issues, and related life changes.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She asks about goals, encourages you to guide conversations, and offers questions and observations to open new perspectives.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of experience, including work as a social worker in hospice and retirement community settings.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Pennsylvania LCSW and practices with a focus on adults across a range of concerns.
Does she work in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.