Amanda Clark , MD, LCSW-C

Amanda Clark is a licensed clinician in Maryland who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings three years of clinical experience and combines practical tools with a respectful, compassionate approach. Amanda works with people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, identity and LGBT-related issues, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness work appear in sessions to help clients stay present and act in line with their values. Amanda also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to support clearer goals and stronger commitment to change.

In a typical session she listens first, then helps set small, achievable steps. Conversations include concrete strategies for coping with anger, ADHD challenges, or chronic illness. Practical skill-building and short-term planning are balanced with space to talk about past trauma or ongoing stress.

Amanda tailors the plan to each person. She supports people dealing with eating and food-related concerns, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and difficult changes like divorce. Her work also covers areas such as intimacy-related issues, BDSM and alternative sex culture, and compassion fatigue.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.

How Amanda Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online

Amanda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people identify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation issues.

She also relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for managing stress, anger, eating-related concerns, and many everyday patterns that cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. She listens first, then suggests tools and checks in to adjust the plan together over time.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what works best.