About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who creates a calm, accepting space for people to talk through difficult feelings. She aims to meet people where they are and support them at their own pace. Amy works in a warm, person-centred way and focuses on making clients feel heard and respected.
She blends somatic awareness with talking therapy, bringing attention to how the body and mind interact. Amy may draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural techniques when these suit a person's goals.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-informed ideas to understand relationship patterns. Amy has five years of counselling experience and a background that includes nine years working in maternity services within the NHS. That time shaped her particular interest in pregnancy and postnatal concerns, birth trauma, grief and infant loss.
She is an accredited practitioner with the Foundation for Infant Loss and brings that knowledge into her practice. Her work covers a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, stress, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and coping with life changes. Amy also supports people dealing with caring responsibilities, chronic illness, body image and attachment difficulties.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients follow the site Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Amy uses somatic awareness to notice how sensations and posture relate to emotion and memory. In practice this means gentle attention to bodily signals alongside conversation, which can help with trauma, grief and stress-related difficulties.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT focuses on values, mindful acceptance of difficult thoughts and small committed actions that move a person towards what matters. This approach can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions.
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and early bonds. These perspectives help people understand how past relationships shape current feelings and closeness with others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and adapt techniques to fit a person's goals, comfort and pace. Together the client and therapist choose which methods to try and review what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work from home, while phone sessions, live chat and text messaging give shorter or more frequent check-ins. These formats make it easier to work around caring duties, health issues or busy schedules and still receive ongoing support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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