About Amanda
Amanda Cooper helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy difficulties, addiction, trauma and a wide range of life changes. She is experienced supporting those struggling with sleep, anger, career concerns, compassion fatigue and neurodiversity-related issues such as ADHD. Amanda also offers coaching-style support and works with people from LGBT communities and those facing fertility or chronic illness challenges.
Amanda has worked in clinical roles for over 13 years and has led short-term residential wellbeing facilities in Warwickshire.
How Amanda works
In those roles she provided therapy, supervised therapist teams and developed therapeutic programmes. She approaches emotional and behavioural problems by looking for the deeper causes, such as trauma or environmental factors, rather than focusing only on surface behaviour. Her background includes postgraduate study in psychology and psychotherapy along with additional training in memory, metaphor and narrative techniques.
Amanda holds an NCPS credential and has experience using psychometric testing in assessment. She has also been involved with initiatives exploring technology to support mental health. Sessions tend to be direct and goal-focused, with an emphasis on making early progress.
Amanda adapts her manner to each person and keeps the tone non-judgemental and approachable. She commonly exchanges messages before an initial session to make the first meeting more productive. People can work with Amanda via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
She aims to help people understand their needs, build skills to cope, and create clearer pathways through stressful or painful life events.
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
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Some of Amanda's core ways of working focus on addressing trauma and on using narrative and memory-focused techniques to shift unhelpful thinking. Trauma-focused work aims to identify how past events shape present-day reactions and reduce their hold on daily life. Narrative and memory-based techniques help people reframe negative patterns and change the stories that keep them stuck.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Amanda will discuss options with each person and tailor the way she works to their goals and preferences. Together they identify short-term aims and adjust methods as progress is made, so the approach matches what the person needs at each stage.
Online therapy makes this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or have limited bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or for people who express themselves better in writing. These formats help fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limitations while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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