About Amanda
Amanda Turner is a counsellor with seven years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on what the client wants to talk about. Amanda aims to be warm, honest and straightforward so people can speak openly about difficult things.
Amanda invites clients to lead sessions and decides goals together. She believes people know their own lives best and that the counsellor's role is to listen, reflect and support.
Background and approach
This style suits people who want time to sort through feelings and choices rather than being told what to do. Her practice often helps with stress, anxiety and depression, and with issues linked to grief, relationship difficulties and life transitions. Amanda also works with concerns such as addiction, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and career pressures.
Phobias are listed among her areas of focus. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside a client-centred stance, and uses mindfulness techniques in sessions. That means conversations will include practical ways to notice thoughts and try small changes, together with space to reflect on feelings.
Amanda aims to make sessions simple and down to earth. She describes herself as approachable and non-judgemental, and welcomes people who want to explore their experience without feeling rushed. The focus is on helping people find clearer options and better ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Amanda combines a person-centred way of working with practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and elements of mindfulness. The person-centred approach means the client sets the pace and topics, and the counsellor listens, reflects and offers support for whatever feels most pressing. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps by breaking down difficult thoughts and patterns into manageable steps so clients can try small changes and notice what happens. Mindfulness work teaches simple ways to bring attention to the present moment, which can reduce reactivity and make emotions easier to sit with.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Amanda treats this as a collaborative process and will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus more on thought-based tasks, reflective conversations or short mindfulness practices during sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit brief updates, journalling or ongoing support between calls. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or caring responsibilities while keeping the therapeutic process continuous.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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