About Amber
Amber Sexton is a BACP counsellor who helps people make sense of difficult emotional experiences. She welcomes people who are anxious, grieving, worn out or stuck, and she focuses on building a trusted working relationship so clients feel heard. Amber uses a calm, down-to-earth style and encourages people to set goals that matter to them.
She draws on somatic work to help clients notice how their bodies hold stress and emotion.
Background and approach
Amber also uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns. Sessions move at the clients pace and focus on practical steps as well as understanding feelings. Her background includes work at an NHS awareness centre for three years and practice at Relational Counselling Tadworth.
Amber has a BSc (Hons) in counselling and a Foundation Degree in Science Counselling. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. People come to Amber with a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress.
She also supports people facing parenting strain, career decisions, body image worries, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD-related struggles. Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Amber helps clients notice patterns in thoughts, feelings and bodily responses, then explores small changes that can make life easier.
The work aims to increase self-awareness, build coping skills and help people move forward at a pace that feels safe.
Approaches you can use online with Amber
Somatic work helps people notice sensations in the body and how these relate to emotions and stress. It can be useful for panic, trauma responses and long-term tension by bringing gentle awareness to bodily signals.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match what matters to them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and trust. This approach supports people looking to change how they relate to others and to themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work collaboratively to identify what fits best. Together they will review your goals, preferences and how you respond to different techniques, adjusting methods as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. That variety makes it easier to fit sessions around family and work, and allows different ways to communicate when speaking aloud feels hard. Many people find this range helps them engage in therapy more consistently and practically.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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)
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English