Amanda Pisark, LCSW

Amanda Pisark, LCSW, is licensed in Pennsylvania and has seven years of clinical experience. She works with adults on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, stress and anxiety, depression, intimacy issues, self-esteem, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She describes her work as listening to people’s experiences, asking questions, and offering observations to help them see their situations differently.

Amanda's background includes social work in hospice care and retirement communities. That experience shaped her focus on caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and grief after loss. She also helps people facing chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain, and the emotional burden that accompanies those conditions.

In sessions she invites clients to guide conversations while she offers occasional questions and observations. That balance aims to deepen understanding of internal reactions, relationships, and daily patterns. She says this approach helps people identify practical coping techniques and small changes that reduce symptoms like overwhelm or impulsive behaviors.

She uses tools drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Amanda sometimes assigns short exercises between sessions to build new habits and awareness. These tasks are meant to be manageable and integrated into daily life.

Her stated aim is to support adults through short-term goals and longer work that improves relationships and daily functioning. She works at a pace the client finds workable. To begin, the process starts with a conversation about hopes and expectations for therapy.

How Amanda’s approaches translate to remote sessions