About Amy
Amy Houston is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and life changes. She uses a warm, person-focused style and aims to make conversations straightforward and easy to follow. Amy holds BACP accreditation and has three years of professional experience in counselling.
Her sessions tend to focus on what matters most to each person. She listens without judgement and encourages clients to name feelings and practical goals.
Background and approach
That approach can help with issues such as addiction, grief, intimacy worries, eating and sleeping problems, and career stress. Amy also offers support for concerns around ADHD, body image and caregiver stress. She can talk through communication problems, commitment doubts, and the fallout from separation or infidelity.
Practical coping strategies are used alongside reflective conversation to build better day-to-day routines. People working through anger, compassion fatigue or parenthood pressures will find clear, step-by-step suggestions in sessions. Amy draws on client-centred therapy to place the person’s experience at the heart of the work.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on realistic steps forward. Her style is calm and direct, and she encourages small changes that add up. To begin, a short matching process is used so people can schedule sessions that fit their needs and availability.
Client-centred work online and practical session options
Amy uses client-centred therapy, which means she puts the person’s feelings and goals at the centre of each session. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting what has been said, and helping clients identify their own next steps. This approach can be helpful for relationship worries, grief, low self-esteem and coping with change.Her practical aim is to help people build routines and coping strategies that fit day-to-day life. Together the therapist and client will try different approaches and choose what feels most helpful. Finding the right way of working is a joint process and is adjusted as needs and goals change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences. Video calls work well for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit quick check-ins or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging can fit shorter check-ins, journal-style reflection, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or relocation within the UK.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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