Amanda Pisark, LCSW

Pennsylvania · 7 years in practice

Amanda Pisark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who works with adults facing relationship strain, loss, life transitions, and stress.

License and registration

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

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About Amanda

Amanda Pisark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who works with adults facing relationship strain, loss, life transitions, and stress. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can ease daily strain and improve important relationships. Sessions are straightforward and paced to each person's comfort level.

Amanda welcomes questions and keeps the work collaborative. Amanda draws on seven years of experience that include social work in hospice and retirement community settings.

Background and approach

That background gives her a clear view of how aging, caregiving responsibilities, chronic illness, and grief can affect mood and daily life. She uses that experience to notice patterns in how people respond to change and loss. Her approach is conversational and client-directed.

She asks questions and offers observations to help clients see things from different angles. Over time she and the client build coping tools and routines that can reduce anxiety, depression, and overwhelming stress.

Amanda uses a mix of approaches that match each person's needs, including systemic ideas that look at relationships and patterns, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and attachment-informed perspectives to understand relationship dynamics. She may suggest short exercises between sessions to practice new skills.

People often come with concerns about intimacy, communication problems, career stress, compassion fatigue, or ongoing trauma symptoms. Amanda works with those issues in simple, step-by-step ways aimed at steady progress.

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

Approaches that shape online sessions

Amanda uses approaches that translate well to remote work. Systemic ideas look at patterns between people and how those patterns affect daily life; this helps with communication problems, blended family stress, and recurring conflicts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship experiences influence trust and intimacy, which can be useful for people with relationship and intimacy concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the client's situation and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be more flexible when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around caregiving, work, or mobility limitations while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.

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Questions people ask

What issues does Amanda commonly address?

She helps people with relationship and family conflict, grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, stress, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, career pressures, and caregiver strain.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is conversational and client-directed. She asks questions and offers observations to help clients consider new perspectives and develop practical coping techniques.

What experience does she bring to sessions?

Amanda has seven years of social work experience, including work in hospice and retirement communities, which shaped her focus on aging, caregiving, loss, and life transitions.

What credentials and region are listed for this clinician?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Pennsylvania and practices in that state.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Amanda?

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