Amanda Pisark, LCSW

Pennsylvania · 7 years in practice

Amanda Pisark is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, or changes in relationships and life roles.

License and registration

LCSW, Pennsylvania: CW026689 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1427910769 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 7
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Amanda

Amanda Pisark is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, or changes in relationships and life roles. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical, listening carefully and asking questions that help people see their situation differently. She spent years working as a social worker in hospice care and retirement communities.

That background shaped her interest in loss, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and difficult life transitions.

Background and approach

Amanda draws on that experience when someone is juggling health challenges, blended family dynamics, or the strain of caregiving. Amanda uses a mix of therapeutic approaches to match each person’s needs. She encourages clients to guide conversations while offering questions and observations that open new perspectives.

Over time she helps people build coping techniques and simple tools to manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, or overwhelm. She often blends existential ideas about meaning and choice with practical methods from acceptance and commitment work and cognitive behavioral strategies. Sessions can include short exercises or take-home practice to reinforce new habits between meetings.

Amanda aims to move at a pace that feels manageable. Her focus is on clear goals, steady steps, and helping people reconnect with their values, relationships, and daily life. She practices in Pennsylvania as an LCSW and works with adults across a wide age range.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Amanda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Coping with life changes
Stress, Anxiety
Intimacy-related issues
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Aging and geriatric issues
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Emptiness
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Post-traumatic stress
Social anxiety and phobia

Approaches Amanda names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches online and how they help

Existential Therapy asks questions about meaning, choice, and what matters to you. It can help when life changes, loss, or uncertainty leave you feeling unmoored by encouraging reflection on values and direction.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that match your values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and situations where avoidance makes life harder.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections influence current relationships and communication. It can help people improve how they relate to partners, family members, and others by identifying patterns and experimenting with different ways of connecting.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. Sessions are adjustable over time as needs change.

Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, quick check-ins can fit into a workday through messaging, and text or chat can be helpful for short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Amanda commonly address?

Amanda helps people dealing with relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and intimacy-related worries, as well as career and caregiving stress.

What is her general therapy style like?

She keeps sessions collaborative and down-to-earth, encouraging clients to lead while offering questions and observations to open new perspectives and practical next steps.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has seven years of professional experience, including work in hospice care and retirement communities that informed her focus on loss, aging, and caregiver stress.

What credentials and region does she practice in?

Amanda is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Pennsylvania.

Which languages are supported and can she work with people abroad?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

How are sessions delivered?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does cost and payment work?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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