Amanda Clark, MD, LCSW-C

Amanda Clark is a licensed clinician in Maryland who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She combines practical skills with calm listening to help people feel steadier day to day. Amanda holds an MD and is an LCSW-C with three years of professional experience.

Amanda focuses on short-term coping as well as longer patterns that keep problems recurring. She works on motivation, self-esteem, and confidence so people can move toward goals that matter to them. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs.

Her background includes addressing trauma and abuse, anger, grief, and intimacy-related issues. Amanda also supports people navigating relationship concerns, career stress, and major life changes. She has experience with ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and eating and food-related challenges.

Additionally, she has worked with adoption and foster care situations, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and chronic illness or pain. Amanda is familiar with communication and control issues, commitment concerns, and needs that come up around alternative sex culture and kink.

People can expect a respectful, sensitive approach that emphasizes practical steps and steady progress. Amanda tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process clear and manageable.

How Amanda blends CBT and acceptance work online

Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and develop clearer, more useful behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and simple skills that can be practiced between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches people to notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and to commit to values-based action. That approach is useful for coping with anxiety, chronic stress, and life changes while staying oriented toward what matters.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques and a plan to try together. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility in how people connect. Video calls work well for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when that fits a schedule better.