About Polly
Polly Amies is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy registration. She draws on four years of recent professional practice alongside decades of earlier work supporting adults and young people in different therapeutic settings.
Polly focuses on stress and anxiety among many other concerns and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or uncertain. Polly uses a warm, down-to-earth manner in sessions.
Background and approach
She treats people as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations tend to be practical and paced to each person, not fixed to a single formula. Her approach includes client-centred therapy, which means listening carefully and following the client’s priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioural changes. Mindfulness tools are offered when breath and attention work can help reduce tension. Polly has worked with people dealing with depression, grief, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, addictions and a wide range of life changes.
She also supports people with neurodiversity-related concerns such as ADHD and autism, and addresses issues like body image, intimacy-related worries, and caregiver stress. Sessions can include coaching-style conversations when practical planning is needed, or solution-focused work to identify small, achievable steps. Polly aims to adapt the style to each person’s needs so therapy feels relevant and doable.
She welcomes enquiries from people in the UK and internationally who prefer to work in English.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. Online sessions let the counsellor and client set a comfortable pace, so the person can guide what feels most important. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in behaviour. Online CBT sessions often combine conversation with practical exercises to try between meetings, which can help reduce anxiety and improve mood over time.
Mindfulness therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and increase awareness. These tools can be taught and practised during video or phone sessions and used as short daily exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels doable, then agree on a way of working. This collaborative decision can change as therapy progresses to match what is most helpful.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers typing to speaking. Registered or accredited professionals use these options to make therapy accessible and to fit different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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