About Amanda
Amanda Bouvier is a counsellor with 15 years' experience working with adults and teenagers. She supports people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or depression. She also helps those coping with grief, parenting strain, sleep or eating concerns, and life changes that leave them unsure what to do next.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions are aimed at helping people understand how their thoughts and feelings influence choices. Amanda draws on practical therapies so clients can try small changes between meetings and notice what helps in daily life.
Background and approach
She has worked with people who identify as LGBT and with folks from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Her practice includes supporting those affected by attachment and abandonment issues, autism spectrum conditions, ADHD, and the emotional impact of caregiving or chronic illness.
Amanda also has experience with bereavement after the death of a person or an animal, and with the particular pain around miscarriage and stillbirth. She takes time to listen and to help people name what matters most to them. Her sessions combine elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused and Client-Centred work.
She aims to build a trusting relationship and to agree practical steps the client can try between sessions. Amanda practises in the United Kingdom and communicates in English. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Amanda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to reduce distress.She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to shape conversations. Attachment-based work helps people understand patterns in close relationships. Client-centred work means the client sets the pace and the therapist follows the person’s lead. Together these approaches help tailor sessions to each person’s goals and history; Amanda will discuss which fits best and make decisions with the client rather than for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction when wished. Phone call sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Text or chat options suit shorter conversations, updates between sessions, or people who prefer not to use video. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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