Amanda Berger-Semko, LPC
New Jersey · 17 years in practice
Amanda Berger-Semko offers calm, listening space for people feeling overwhelmed by life.
License and registration
- LPC, New Jersey
- 37pc00386400 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1023246709 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 17
- 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 Berger-Semko offers calm, listening space for people feeling overwhelmed by life. She emphasizes slowing down and making room to tell your story. Amanda encourages simple, honest reflection so clients can notice what matters and begin small changes.
Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 17 years of experience. She has worked in schools, churches, courts, community settings, and independent practice. That variety means she has seen many life situations and practical ways people cope.
Background and approach
In sessions she invites curiosity about inner life and relationships. She uses Jungian ideas about symbols and meaning alongside attachment-focused thinking to look at patterns that repeat in relationships. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and present in the moment.
Amanda supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She also helps with parenting stress, career questions, eating and sleeping struggles, addictions, and attention challenges. Additional focuses include abandonment, attachment issues, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Amanda encourages laughter and honest feeling in the same session. She invites clients to bring everyday life into therapy and to try concrete steps between meetings.
Therapy is framed as a shared journey toward more meaning and balance.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amanda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda names
- Jungian Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Amanda often draws on Jungian Therapy to pay attention to inner images, symbols, and meaning. That perspective helps when life feels empty or confusing and can be useful for exploring grief, identity, and long-standing patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections; it helps people understand repeated hurts and try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. Together they try ideas in sessions and adjust the plan as progress and preference indicate.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people see facial cues and try exercises together. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between appointments or use shorter, more frequent contacts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Amanda often help with?
She helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, addictions, ADHD, and career questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm, down-to-earth, and collaborative. She blends Jungian perspectives, attachment ideas, client-centered listening, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try practical changes.
What is her professional background?
Amanda has 17 years of experience and has worked in schools, churches, courts, community settings, and independent practice, bringing a range of real-world perspectives to sessions.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is located in New Jersey and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor.
Can people meet with her if they live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients, allowing people in other countries to connect when scheduling permits.
What session formats are available?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
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