Amanda Clark, LCSW-C

Amanda Clark is a Licensed Certified Social Worker in Maryland with three years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Amanda also supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, career questions, and challenges tied to ADHD or chronic health conditions.

Her approach is straightforward and conversational. Sessions focus on identifying immediate patterns, including how anger shows up in daily life. She uses practical tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and to try different ways of responding when stress or resentment builds.

Amanda draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients clarify values and change actions that get in the way of those values. She also uses Client-Centered and Mindfulness techniques to slow down strong reactions and name feelings without judgement. Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit for people who are struggling to find direction or keep commitments.

In session she listens, asks direct questions, and practices new skills with the person rather than lecturing. Treatment conversations include concrete behavioral experiments and short exercises you can try between sessions. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can take on.

She sees issues related to adoption, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, sexual diversity and kink, eating concerns, chronic pain or illness, and the fallout from domestic violence and separation. Sessions are conducted in English and reflect her clinical experience in Maryland.

How Amanda uses ACT, CBT and mindful work in online sessions