About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor who helps people facing grief, anxiety, stress and life changes. She offers a calm, accepting presence and aims to meet each person where they are. Amy uses straightforward, compassionate conversation to help people talk through problems at their own pace.
She works in a person-centred way, which means the focus stays on the client's experience and priorities. Amy often blends practical tools from other approaches when that will help someone move forward.
Background and approach
This flexible style is used to support issues such as pregnancy and postnatal difficulties, bereavement, relationship problems, and trauma and abuse. Amy holds BACP registration which reflects her professional standing with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has around five years of counselling experience and previously spent nine years working in maternity services in the NHS.
That background informs her work with pregnancy-related concerns, birth trauma and infant loss. She has also developed an interest in neurodiversity, particularly autism spectrum conditions and ADHD, arising from family experience as a carer. Amy supports parents and carers who are adjusting to the challenges of caring for someone with additional needs.
Sessions typically involve listening, exploring feelings and trying small practical steps between meetings. Amy offers a warm space for people to name difficult emotions, make sense of loss, and plan manageable changes in daily life.
How Amy's approaches work online
Amy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being dominated by them. ACT encourages identifying personal values and taking small steps that align with those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how past relationships affect current patterns. This approach helps people understand emotional responses and improve how they relate to others, useful for intimacy and relationship concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will work together with each person to try different methods and decide what fits best with their goals and preferences. She adapts the plan over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation from wherever works for them, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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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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