About Amanda
Amanda Alleman is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 13 years of work experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, family and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addictions, career stress, and intimacy or sleep problems.
Amanda approaches sessions believing each person knows their story best. She looks for strengths the client already has and builds on them. Conversations are practical and straightforward, aimed at small steps that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She uses goal-focused tools when useful and listens to what matters most to the client. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Amanda draws on approaches such as client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people rethink unhelpful patterns. She may also use motivational interviewing to support change and solution-focused work to set clear, manageable goals. People come for many reasons, from coping with life changes to dealing with mood swings or relationship strain.
Amanda offers a nonjudgmental space to talk honestly and figure out practical next steps. She supports clients through both short-term goals and longer, deeper work. Her practice aims to make therapy understandable and usable.
New clients are guided through how sessions will work and what to expect, so they can start with a clear plan.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to each person and to create a respectful, listening space. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and to build on their own strengths.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stressful situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts methods as progress is made so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief updates, questions, or coaching-style support between longer sessions.
These options make therapy more flexible around work, caregiving, or travel and let people choose what fits their day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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