About Amanda
Amanda Thomson is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on common worries such as stress and anxiety, and supports people facing grief, depression and relationship difficulties. Amanda treats everyone with respect and compassion and aims to make the first steps towards change feel manageable.
She meets each person where they are and adapts conversations and a working plan to fit individual needs.
Background and approach
Sessions look at what feels overwhelming now and what practical steps could reduce pressure. Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people gain perspective and build coping skills. Many clients come with problems that affect sleep, intimacy or their day-to-day energy.
She also works with people dealing with career strain, anger, and neurodiversity-related concerns such as autism and ADHD. Additional focus areas include body image, chronic illness, and attachment-related difficulties. Amanda offers a calm, non-judgemental space and moves at a pace chosen by the client.
She helps people understand patterns that keep problems going and practices skills to try between sessions. The aim is to leave therapy feeling better able to manage and make choices that suit each person. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, holds the BACP credential, and runs sessions online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Sessions are provided in English and are arranged through an online matching and scheduling process.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda draws on well-established therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach she uses helps people identify and challenge thought patterns that increase worry and stress, teaching practical strategies to reduce anxious thinking and improve day-to-day functioning. Another method concentrates on developing emotional awareness and regulation, which can help when feelings of grief, anger or overwhelm get in the way of daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to decide which method fits their needs, goals and preferences. She checks in regularly to adapt the plan as progress is made or circumstances change, so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging suits ongoing brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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