About Amanda
Amanda "Mandy" Roberts offers help for stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, sleeping difficulties and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, career questions, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Mandy uses straightforward methods to help people feel steadier and more able to cope with life changes.
Mandy has 14 years of counselling experience and holds NCPS. She takes a person-centred stance that leaves control with the client.
How Amanda works
Sessions begin with what feels most pressing, and pace is set by the individual rather than a fixed agenda. When someone wants to look deeper, Mandy may work with attachment patterns and past wounds. This can include exploring early relationships and the inner child to understand recurring emotional responses.
If staying focused on the present is preferred, she will use cognitive approaches and mindfulness-based exercises to build practical skills. Mandy often combines acceptance and commitment ideas with emotion regulation tools. She creates simple practices clients can use between sessions, such as short meditations or breathing exercises.
The goal is to help people notice difficult feelings and make choices that match their values. Her style is warm and unhurried. Mandy aims to make sessions feel like a calm place to talk without pressure.
People are encouraged to move at their own speed and to try different ways of working until something feels right.
Amanda lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused 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
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Mandy uses talking therapies online
Amanda often works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online practice. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting led by them, then choosing actions that match what matters to the person. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people develop different ways of relating and feeling safer inside.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mandy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit. This collaborative process helps decide whether to focus on present coping skills, explore past patterns, or combine both routes.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical options. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, while still using established therapeutic tools.
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