About Amanda
Amanda Guest helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions and trauma. She supports people coping with depression, bipolar difficulties, relationship and intimacy concerns, and low self-esteem. Amanda also helps with parenting strain, grief, career worries and ADHD related challenges.
Amanda is a counsellor with eight years of experience and the NCPS credential. She treats each person as an individual and offers a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk. Her tone is direct and practical, aiming to make therapy feel straightforward and useful.
How Amanda works
In sessions Amanda uses approaches that focus on relationships, emotions and thinking patterns. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings. She also uses client-centred listening to help people lead the pace and focus of therapy.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when practical changes are needed, such as shifting unhelpful thoughts or testing new behaviours. Emotionally-focused methods are used when the main issue is understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships. Amanda works with a wide range of concerns including eating difficulties, addictions, domestic violence effects, abandonment issues and communication problems.
She also supports people dealing with dissociation, caregiver stress, co-morbidity and complex trauma. Sessions are offered in English and Amanda accepts international clients. She aims to collaborate on goals and build clear, manageable steps so people can see progress between sessions.
Amanda lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach and online therapy options
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people relate now. It helps when patterns from the past are causing trust, closeness or abandonment worries. Client-Centred Therapy gives people space to talk and lead the pace; the counsellor listens, reflects and supports personal insight. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on practical changes to thoughts and behaviours and is useful for anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will discuss different methods and agree a plan together based on a person's needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time if something else would suit better.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing, need flexibility during the day, or want shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while still working through relationship, emotional and thinking-based issues.
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