Amanda Berger-Semko
Compassionate guidance for busy, overwhelmed lives
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by life’s pace and need a moment to pause. She invites clients to step away from daily tasks and share their story in a calm, accepting space. Amanda encourages simple, honest conversation that makes room for both laughter and tears.
She frames therapy as a shared journey where small insights can change how days feel. Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and has practiced for 17 years.
Background and approach
Her work spans schools, churches, courts, community programs, and independent practice in New Jersey. That range gives her experience with many life situations and practical challenges people face. In sessions she focuses on listening closely and helping people notice patterns that matter.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationships and Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s pace. Mindfulness and existential perspectives help clients connect to values and meaning when life feels uncertain. Amanda often helps with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, grief, and changes in life roles.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, body image and eating issues, self-esteem, ADHD, and career questions. These are entry points to deeper conversation rather than labels that define anyone. Therapy can happen from home through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Amanda sees international clients and works in English. She aims to match approach to each person’s goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Amanda draws on attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviors. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or recurring relationship patterns cause distress. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy which focuses on following the client’s lead and creating space for whatever they bring to the session. That style helps people feel heard and understood as they sort through practical concerns and choices.These different approaches are tools Amanda uses together rather than fixed labels. Finding the right mix is part of the process, and she collaborates with each person to decide what fits their goals, life situation, and comfort level. The plan can shift as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging can work between other responsibilities. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent when schedules are tight or life is unpredictable.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point