About Amanda
Amanda Bouvier greets visitors with a calm, straightforward approach. She aims to make the first step feel less daunting for people who are worried about stress, anxiety, grief or changes in life. Amanda writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Amanda has 15 years of experience supporting adults and teenagers in therapeutic settings. She draws on several approaches to suit different needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work and cognitive behavioural methods.
How Amanda works
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking, alongside exploring feelings and relationships. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns. These include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, ADHD and autism spectrum issues, relationship and intimacy challenges, self-esteem and body image, grief including loss of a companion animal, and work or career pressures.
She also supports people facing health, caregiving and ageing-related stresses. Amanda places importance on how early relationships shape current patterns. She helps people notice unhelpful habits, try small changes, and build skills for coping with life’s demands.
Conversations are direct but warm, and aim to leave people with clearer options. Sessions are offered in English and Amanda works with people across the United Kingdom and international clients. Practical details such as session formats and subscriptions are explained during the sign-up and matching process.
Amanda lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Amanda works with
The areas below are the ones Amanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Amanda uses acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural methods to guide online sessions. Acceptance and commitment ideas help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-based work looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections and trust in others. Cognitive behavioural methods focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical experiments to change behaviours and mood.Finding the right way of working is a collaborative process. Amanda discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to suit those goals. She checks in regularly about what is or is not helpful and combines approaches when that will better meet someone’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and easier during a break from work; live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around busy lives and different routines.
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A practical next step
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