About Amber
Amber Sexton is a BACP counsellor with five years of practice in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people make sense of difficult emotions and life events. Amber aims to create a warm, respectful space where clients feel listened to and can work at their own pace.
Her approach centres on building trust and a strong working relationship. Sessions focus on increasing self-awareness and finding new ways to cope with stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools and conversation to help people move forward from trauma, low self-esteem or major life changes. Amber combines evidence-informed methods with a person-centred attitude. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance-based strategies to help people live according to their values.
Attachment-focused perspectives shape her way of understanding relational patterns and intimacy issues. Her background includes work in community and NHS-related settings for several years. Amber holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in counselling and a Foundation Degree in Science Counselling, and she is BACP registered.
She has undertaken continuing professional development in areas such as crisis planning, shame and body-focused work, and working with suicidal parts. People come to Amber for a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship issues. She also supports those facing career stresses, caregiving strain, sleep or eating difficulties, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as ADHD and autism.
The focus is always on practical, manageable steps suited to each person.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions can help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them, and to commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and making life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test them with practical experiments. This approach is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating concerns.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and intimacy. It can help when relationship difficulties, abandonment worries or attachment issues are part of the problem.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist discusses goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and adapts methods as work progresses. Clients are supported to try approaches and decide together which best meets their needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with a therapist. Video calls let you use visual cues for deeper conversational work, phone sessions can fit around busy schedules or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging allow for shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to access help from different locations and at times that suit daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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