Amanda Pisark
Compassionate support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Pisark is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with relationship and grief issues. She works with adults facing big life changes, caregiver stress, loss, and unprocessed trauma. Sessions are direct and practical, aimed at easing daily overwhelm and improving close relationships.
She draws on seven years of clinical experience, including hospice care and work in retirement communities. That background shaped how she listens for what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Amanda helps clients sort through triggers, strong emotions, and patterns that keep them stuck. Early conversations center on why someone is seeking help and what they hope to achieve. The client’s goals guide the plan, and Amanda asks questions to help people see different perspectives.
Clients direct most of the work while she offers observations and reflections to deepen understanding. Over time she teaches coping techniques and builds simple tools clients can use between sessions. These might include short exercises to practice at home that support better self-awareness and smoother interactions with family.
The pace of work adapts to each person’s needs. Amanda uses a mix of approaches, choosing what fits each situation. She helps people explore feelings, improve communication, and reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or grief.
Her style aims to be supportive and practical for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda often combines approaches to meet the needs of adults facing family challenges, grief, or trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then move toward values-driven action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns that affect closeness and trust, which can be useful for family conflicts and intimacy-related issues.Finding the best approach is collaborative. Amanda will listen to goals and try methods that fit each person’s situation. Together they will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most, mixing techniques from different approaches when that makes sense.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy adults and caregivers. Video calls let people see each other and work through communication practice, while phone sessions provide a simpler option when video is hard. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching, and reinforcing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life transitions or when managing caregiving responsibilities.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point