About Amanda
Amanda Pisark offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, loss, relationship strain, or confusing life changes. She meets people where they are and helps them sort through thoughts and feelings that interfere with daily life. Amanda uses clear, straightforward conversations to make hard topics easier to handle.
She works with people across adulthood and draws on seven years of social work experience. Her background includes time in hospice care and retirement communities, where she saw how grief, caregiving, and illness affect mood and relationships.
Background and approach
That experience shaped a focus on grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the emotional ripple those situations cause. Amanda also helps with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, intimacy concerns, and communication problems. In the first sessions she asks about what brought someone to therapy and what they hope will change.
From there she and the client set short-term and longer-term goals. Conversations are client-led, with occasional questions and observations to open new viewpoints. She draws on practical approaches to build coping skills and everyday tools.
Homework exercises are sometimes offered to practice new habits between sessions. The aim is steady progress at a pace that fits each person. Amanda holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and practices in Pennsylvania.
Sessions are offered in English and are adaptable to different schedules and life demands.
How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and building small actions to move toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety, avoidance, or low mood get in the way of daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and early bonds to understand current emotional reactions and closeness issues, which can be useful for intimacy and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person’s own goals and experiences, offering active listening and reflection so clients feel heard and can explore change at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with exercises or between-session tasks. She adapts techniques over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection and shorter updates. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving duties, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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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