About Amanda
Amanda Bouvier is a counsellor with 15 years' experience working with adults and teenagers. She focuses on common problems like anxiety, stress and depression in clear, practical ways. Amanda also supports people facing grief, family conflict, parenting pressures, and concerns about identity or intimacy.
Her style is grounded and direct. She listens closely and helps people notice how emotions show up in the body. That somatic awareness is paired with talking therapies so clients can link sensations, thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build practical skills for day-to-day coping as well as space to process painful experiences. Amanda draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based work. These shape how she helps people address unhelpful thinking, strengthen relationships, and clarify personal values.
She adapts techniques to suit each person rather than using a single method. Her background includes long experience with neurodiversity, including autism spectrum conditions and ADHD, and with bereavement after the loss of a person or an animal. She also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiving stress and body image concerns.
Amanda values practical steps alongside emotional exploration. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online by completing a short matching questionnaire. She works with people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients who prefer remote sessions.
How Amanda blends somatic work and therapy online
Amanda uses somatic-informed approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based work. Somatic work helps people notice bodily signals - for example tension, shallow breathing or tightness - and learn ways to ease those sensations so they feel less overwhelming. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with their values, which helps with anxiety, depression and life changes. Attachment-Based work explores early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, useful for intimacy, abandonment and communication concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences and how comfortable someone feels with different methods. Together they decide which mix of somatic noticing, values-based exercises and relationship-focused exploration makes the most sense for the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and body language, while phone or messaging can feel easier for those who find screens difficult. Remote work makes it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English