Amanda Berger-Semko , LPC

Amanda Berger-Semko is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 17 years of clinical experience helping people navigate transitions, relationships, and emotional distress. As an LPC she has advanced training to provide psychotherapy and support across a wide range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, depression and bipolar disorder, ADHD, caregiving strain, grief, and body image and eating-related struggles.

Amanda has worked across diverse settings including schools, churches, courts, community programs, and private practice, which has shaped a flexible, person-focused approach to care. She draws on attachment-based thinking, client-centered listening, existential reflection, Jungian depth work, and mindfulness practices to tailor therapy to each individual’s needs. That blend allows her to address both day-to-day coping and deeper patterns tied to family of origin, abandonment, commitment and control issues, blended family dynamics, and chronic health challenges.

Known for holding a compassionate, curious stance toward each person’s story, Amanda aims to create space for reflection and meaning-making. She approaches therapy as a collaborative journey - a time to pause from roles and responsibilities, to explore purpose, and to identify steps toward a life that feels more aligned with one’s values.

Integrative Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options

Amanda integrates attachment-based therapy, client-centered therapy, and mindfulness practices into online work to meet a range of needs. Attachment-based therapy explores patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds influence current trust, intimacy, and conflict - it can be useful for abandonment, attachment, and relationship struggles. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the individual's experience by offering empathic listening and nonjudgmental support, which helps people build self-esteem, clarify values, and work through life changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress-management skills that can reduce anxiety, improve emotional regulation, and support coping with chronic pain or caregiving stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Amanda works collaboratively to tailor methods to each person’s goals, preferences, and circumstances. She encourages exploration of different techniques and adjustments over time to ensure the work aligns with what the individual needs.

Online therapy with Amanda is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and life situations. These options make it easier to access regular support from home or while traveling, accommodate different communication styles, and allow therapy to fit into busy routines.