About Amali
Amali Hapugoda is a counsellor who helps people feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed. She supports those coping with loss, relationship pain, trauma, addictive behaviours and low self-esteem. She also works with clients facing sleep or eating problems, parenting strain, career doubts and major life changes.
Amali offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what matters to them. Amali has ten years of experience working in independent practice in the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, commonly known as BACP. Her work draws on a mix of approaches so sessions focus on the person rather than a fixed method. In sessions she aims to understand how past experiences shape current feelings.
At the same time she uses practical strategies to manage symptoms like anxiety or insomnia. Conversations are collaborative and paced to suit each person’s needs. She often combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to build day-to-day coping skills.
When trauma or deeper patterns are central, she may use trauma-informed or psychodynamic ideas to help make sense of repeated difficulties. Motivational interviewing informs work around addictions and behaviour change. People describe her approach as gentle and reflective, while also offering clear ideas to try between sessions.
She accepts clients in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and circumstances.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a warm, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and feels heard. This approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship worries by prioritising the client's views and goals.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises and simple strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It is often used for anxiety, insomnia and mood symptoms because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and build motivation, which can be useful when addressing addictions or difficult habits.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit into a short break, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection without needing to be on camera. These options make it easier to arrange regular sessions around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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