About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people with anxiety and related concerns. She takes a warm, person-centred approach and aims to make people feel heard and accepted from the first session. Amy meets people where they are and moves at a pace that suits them.
Sessions are collaborative and practical; she listens carefully and then offers ideas or tools that fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
The focus is on what matters to the individual rather than on jargon or strict techniques. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Over five years of practice she has supported people facing stress, depression, grief and relationship strain.
Amy has particular experience with pregnancy and postnatal issues, miscarriage, baby loss and birth-related concerns, informed by nine years working in maternity settings within the NHS. Amy also works with people affected by neurodiversity, including autism spectrum conditions and ADHD, and with parents and carers of family members with special educational needs and disabilities.
She draws on a range of approaches to suit a person’s needs rather than following a single model. Her style is accepting and down-to-earth. People can expect a calm space to talk, help to name and manage difficult feelings, and practical steps to try between sessions.
Sessions may include short-term coaching tasks as well as therapeutic exploration.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Amy draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as core strands of her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relational patterns and how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they decide which ideas to try first. That collaborative process means approaches can be mixed and adjusted over time to suit changing needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more reachable. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging is useful for short updates or ongoing support between formal sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, childcare and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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