About Amanda
Amanda Balaam is a counsellor who uses empathy and a calm approach to help people manage stressful and anxious times. She works in a straightforward way so conversations feel comfortable and easy to follow. Amanda draws on different ways of working to meet each person's needs and pace.
She has 17 years of experience supporting people with anxiety, stress and depression. She also helps with relationship difficulties, grief, addictions and issues around intimacy and sleep.
Background and approach
Amanda pays attention to how attachment and early relationships can affect current feelings and patterns. Amanda describes her practice as person-centred and solution-focused, which means she listens closely and helps people identify practical steps to feel better. Sessions aim to be collaborative - the person sets goals and Amanda helps shape how to reach them.
She is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists - BACP. This is shown as BACP after her name. Amanda works with people in the United Kingdom and holds an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
Conversations can focus on short-term problems or longer patterns that keep returning. Amanda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. She explains how the subscription and booking process works when someone starts therapy.
Approaches that shape online counselling
Amanda works with attachment-based ideas, which look at how early relationships influence current feelings and patterns. This approach can help when problems keep repeating in relationships or when someone feels fearful of closeness.She uses a client-centred way of working that puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. That means meetings focus on what matters to the individual, with the counsellor listening and reflecting rather than directing the conversation.
Solution-focused techniques are used to look for small, practical changes that make a difference day to day. This can be useful when someone wants concrete steps to manage anxiety, sleep problems or coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss different ways of working and agree a plan that fits a person’s needs, goals and preferences. The aim is to collaborate so sessions feel useful from the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging can be handy for brief check-ins, shorter sessions or for fitting therapy into a busy day. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep continuity of care around work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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