About Amanda
Amanda Salvara is a counsellor with five years' experience working with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. She holds BACP accreditation, and she focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship difficulties. Amanda aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear for anyone who is unsure where to begin.
Amanda takes a flexible, integrative approach that adapts to each person's needs.
How Amanda works
Sessions look at where someone is now, where they want to be, and the patterns that may be getting in the way. She uses straightforward tools to help with mood, self‑esteem, life changes and recovery from abuse. Her style is collaborative and curious.
Amanda invites people to explore how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact, and to try small changes that can make daily life easier. She supports work on issues such as attachment, abandonment, body image, shame, isolation and financial stress. Sessions can combine practical exercises, reflective conversation and mindfulness practices.
Amanda helps clients identify resources they already have, and builds new skills over time. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Amanda works with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and pays attention to how identity and life context shape experience.
She accepts international clients and offers a range of online session formats to fit different needs and schedules. If someone wants to begin, they can be guided through a short matching process to find a suitable time and format.
Amanda lists 8 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
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that inform online counselling
Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as core tools in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Amanda works together with each person to identify which methods feel most useful for their goals and circumstances. That might mean combining ACT, CBT and mindfulness techniques over several sessions so the plan fits the person's needs and pace.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation when visual connection is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check‑in. Live chat and text‑based messaging suit people who prefer writing, need brief support between sessions, or want flexibility outside normal working hours. These options aim to make it simpler to access consistent therapeutic work.
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A practical next step
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