About Amanda
Amanda Berger-Semko invites people who feel hurried, overwhelmed, or unsure to pause and talk through what matters. She is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience and offers a calm place to tell your story and sort through emotions. Her manner is warm and grounded, aimed at helping people reconnect with meaning and direction.
Amanda draws on client-centered work to meet people where they are. She listens closely and follows each person's pace while helping them notice patterns that affect relationships, mood, and daily life.
Background and approach
That can mean looking at attachment needs, how stress shows up, or how values and purpose shape choices. She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage anxiety, cravings, sleep disruption, and emotional overwhelm. These simple exercises are woven into sessions so clients can try tools and see what helps between meetings.
Amanda integrates deeper, exploratory approaches when people want to reflect on life themes, identity, and meaning. Her background includes school, church, court, community, and independent practice settings. That variety shaped a flexible style comfortable with both short-term problem solving and longer work about life transitions, grief, or recovery from trauma and addiction.
She has particular experience with issues around attachment, body image, parenting stress, and blended family concerns. Amanda practices from New Jersey and works with people across locations, offering video, phone, chat, and text options. She encourages anyone feeling stuck or in flux to take a moment, tell their story, and explore next steps together.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amanda uses attachment-based ideas to notice how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. That work helps when people struggle with trust, commitment issues, abandonment feelings, or recurring patterns in close relationships.She also practices client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and goals. The therapist listens without imposing solutions and helps people find their own path through life changes, grief, or questions about purpose.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She may combine listening-focused work, mindfulness exercises, and exploratory reflection as the relationship develops.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and practice new interactions, phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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