Amanda Alleman
Supportive family and parenting counselor
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Alleman is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, relationships, and parenting challenges. She brings 13 years of professional experience and approaches each person with steady compassion. Amanda emphasizes that people know their own stories and brings respect for clients' strengths into sessions.
She aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and supportive. Her style is grounded and practical. She listens first, then works with clients to set small, clear goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy creates space for people to be heard and understood without judgment. Amanda also uses Motivational Interviewing to explore readiness for change and Solution-Focused Therapy to build on what is already working.
These approaches help with a wide range of issues listed in her specialties, from grief and trauma to coping with life changes and addiction. Sessions tend to focus on what matters most now and on practical steps forward. She recognizes starting therapy can feel hard and aims to make the first steps simple.
Amanda offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs. Her approach is collaborative - she works with each person to decide what will help most. Amanda holds the LPC credential, licensed in Pennsylvania under PA LPC PC012271.
She provides services in English and does not accept international clients. For many people, remote sessions make ongoing work easier to maintain.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify patterns of thought that lead to stress or unhelpful behaviors and then practice small changes. This approach can be useful for anxiety, sleeping problems, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel understood before making changes - it helps when someone needs support and validation first.Finding the right method is part of the work. She aims to collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what feels most helpful and adjust as progress is made, combining techniques when useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make scheduling easier and let people continue work between sessions. Amanda uses these formats to keep therapy consistent and flexible so clients can fit sessions into busy lives while continuing focused, goal-oriented work.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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