Amanda Clark
Compassionate clinician focused on practical change
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Clark is a licensed clinician in Maryland who combines practical talk and active strategies to help people manage everyday struggles. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, LCSW-C, with three years of clinical experience. Amanda writes straightforward plans and focuses on steps that fit each person’s life.
Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and client-centered listening. Sessions often include simple exercises to notice thoughts, try new behaviors, and clarify values.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are used when helpful to build calm and forward movement. Amanda has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She also has experience with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy questions, and issues like ADHD, bipolar, and eating challenges.
Additional interests include adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic health concerns, and sexual diversity topics such as BDSM and kink. Conversations with Amanda are respectful and aimed at practical change. She explains options, listens closely, and adjusts plans based on feedback.
The goal is steady progress through manageable steps rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled through the Start Therapy process on the site. Costs vary by location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
The intake begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling once a match is made.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in a way that focuses on values and real-life action. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to small steps that match what matters to them, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the pace and the clinician mirrors and clarifies concerns to promote understanding.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques to try. Sessions are collaborative, with ongoing check-ins to adjust methods if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy week, allow brief check-ins between longer meetings, and support continuity when in-person care is not practical. The mix of approaches and formats is meant to make steady, workable progress accessible from wherever the person is located.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Amanda
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- Stop at any point