Amanda Berger-Semko, LPC

Amanda Berger-Semko welcomes people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about the next step in life. She invites clients to pause from their busy routines and tell their story in a calm, nonjudgmental space. Amanda encourages gentle reflection so people can reconnect with what matters to them and find clearer direction.

Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 17 years of experience in varied settings. Her background includes work in schools, churches, courts, community programs, and private practice. That mix gives her familiarity with many life situations and practical challenges people bring to therapy.

In sessions she focuses on listening first and following each person's pace. She uses approaches that emphasize relationships, personal meaning, and mindful awareness. Conversations may include looking at attachment patterns, exploring personal values, and noticing thoughts and feelings in the moment.

Amanda often helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges tied to chronic illness or caregiving. She also works with issues such as ADHD, bipolar concerns, addiction, and body image worries.

Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Amanda aims to walk alongside clients as they sort through life changes, losses, and decisions. She frames therapy as a shared journey where people can rediscover purpose and make choices that fit their lives.

How Amanda's approaches translate to online therapy

Amanda draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches and on mindfulness practices to guide online work. Attachment-based ideas focus on how past relationship patterns shape current reactions and help people change how they connect with others. Client-centered work centers the person's experience in the room and encourages self-directed growth and clearer choices. Mindfulness work trains simple attention to present-moment thoughts and bodily feelings to reduce reactivity and improve coping.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Amanda will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts the work as the relationship develops so clients can try different ways of reflecting and responding to life challenges.

The practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling and fitting sessions into a busy life, shorter check-ins when needed, and options that reduce travel time. The biography does not list specific remote formats, so confirm available session formats before booking. Amanda accepts international clients, and she will discuss the best way to meet over the initial planning steps.