ABOUT US

Built on experience. Guided by compassion.

Arbor Therapy is a specialized private practice founded by therapists and spouses Amanda and Daniel Nemeth in coastal Carlsbad, California.

We offer clinically grounded and compassionate care for individuals and couples who want to feel more at home in themselves and more connected in their relationships.

Stories have twists. We help you shape how yours unfolds.

Before Arbor Therapy became a practice, it was a story.
Ours began across the Atlantic, with two and a half years of long-distance love, visa uncertainty, time-zone differences, and the recurring question: Will this work? And it did. We married, weaving together our European and American roots and learning firsthand what it means to build a life across cultures.

Then came parenthood—and a turn we had not anticipated. Our first child was born with disabilities that reshaped many of our expectations for the future. We learned in real time that growth is rarely linear, cannot be rushed, and often looks different from what we imagined.

Those seasons have taught us something textbooks could not: what it feels like when life changes in ways you never saw coming.

These experiences shape how we practice. We meet people with compassion and respect for the realities of their lives, helping them face pain honestly, discern what matters, and live with greater freedom and purpose.
Our approach
Therapy is more than talk.
We help you translate insight into renewed thinking, steadier emotional responses, and healthier relationships.
The team
Meet your therapists
We’re Amanda and Daniel Nemeth—licensed marriage and family therapists and partners in life and work.
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Amanda Nemeth, M.S., LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #115990
Amanda brings warmth, creativity, and a steady presence to the therapy room. Known for her gift for metaphor, she creates a safe, dynamic space where clients can face what feels overwhelming, find language for what they are experiencing, and begin to see possibilities that may have felt out of reach.
Amanda’s Story

Growing up as a pastor’s daughter, Amanda learned early to pay attention to people, relationships, and what often goes unspoken. Her own experience with anxiety—and the healing space she found through theater and creative expression—deepened her interest in how stories can help us understand ourselves and one another.

She has since worked across corporate, community, and faith-based settings, bringing clinical training, creativity, and deep respect for each person’s lived experience to her work.

Works With

Amanda works primarily with adults and couples navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and major life transitions. She is attentive to how emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual experiences intersect.

Her Approach

Amanda’s approach is experiential, story-driven, and relational. Drawing from Restoration Therapy, EMDR, and her background in Medical Family Therapy, she attends to the whole person—their story, relationships, body, mind, and spirit.

She gently challenges clients to take ownership while honoring the sacred moments that arise in therapy. Sessions often hold both laughter and tears, action and reflection.

Outside the Office

Amanda finds joy in long conversations over coffee with friends and family, songwriting, trying new recipes, and photography—especially capturing nature and candid family moments.

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Daniel Nemeth, M.S., M.A., LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #130409
Daniel brings curiosity, clarity, and a calm, assured presence to the therapy room. With a systems perspective, he helps clients place present struggles in a wider context and find a grounded way forward.
Daniel’s Story

Raised in Hungary, Daniel was drawn early to compelling stories, questions about human behavior, and what it means to live well. His studies and work have spanned psychology, teaching, organizational consulting, theology, and marriage and family therapy across Europe and the United States.

Building a life across cultures deepened his understanding of how identity, relationships, and belonging shape a person’s experience. A Fulbright Scholar, he brings interdisciplinary training and a lived cross-cultural perspective to his work.

Works With

Daniel works primarily with adults and couples navigating high-functioning anxiety and perfectionism, trauma and grief, marital crises, intercultural relationships, identity and vocational transitions, and spiritual or existential concerns. He is especially drawn to work where relationships, culture, faith, and meaning intersect.

His Approach

Daniel’s approach is warm, direct, collaborative, and deeply curious. He helps clients connect past and present and try new ways of responding and relating—so insight becomes something they can live, not simply understand.

Comfortable with complexity and differing viewpoints, he keeps therapy active and practical.

Outside the Office

Daniel enjoys family adventures, cycling, compelling novels and films, and following Arsenal. He writes comic strips that mostly stay in a drawer and takes unusual satisfaction in bringing order to chaos—whether organizing ideas, refining a system, or finding connections between seemingly unrelated things.

Our practice
A thoughtful space for meaningful work.
Whether in our Carlsbad office or online, you can expect focused, personalized care that supports genuine connection and gives you space to thrive.
In-person sessions: Carlsbad, CA
Online sessions: Available throughout California
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Individual & couple therapy
A space to feel at home
Clinically grounded care
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carlsbad, california
Testimonials
“Amanda has listened with a kind and gentle spirit and walked beside me as we unpacked my story together, giving me tremendous wisdom, insight, and compassion. In addition, she has given me practical tools to deal with my anxiety and given me such courage and hope for my future.”

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