About Amaris
Amaris Raiana welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure about their relationships and inner life. She helps clients name what is happening and find simple, manageable steps forward without judgement. Amaris aims to make conversations feel honest and down to earth from the first session.
She works with relationship and intimacy difficulties where communication has broken down or connection feels out of reach. This includes sexual wellbeing concerns and issues around kink and alternative sexual cultures.
How Amaris works
She also supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and major life changes. Amaris has seven years of practice and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She brings focused attention to patterns that cause pain, such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency and control issues.
She also addresses practical life pressures like parenting strain, caregiver stress and career concerns. Clients can expect a warm, honest and down-to-earth style in sessions. Conversations tend to look at what sits under surface problems and then test small, realistic ways to change things.
The pace is set by the client and aims to feel achievable. Work with Amaris may include talking through difficult memories of trauma and abuse, coping with addictions or navigating separation and family problems. She offers support for intimacy-related problems, fertility and fatherhood concerns alongside everyday issues like sleep, eating and anger.
What Amaris works with
The areas below are the ones Amaris selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for relationship and emotional challenges
Amaris draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on patterns in relationships and personal coping. One common approach looks at attachment and how early relationship patterns shape current connection and trust; this helps when intimacy feels distant or when abandonment fears surface. Another helpful method examines thought and behaviour patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood, breaking these into small experiments you can try between sessions to see what changes work.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Amaris will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and comfort level. That shared planning means techniques are adjusted as therapy progresses, so the direction stays helpful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth or cameras are limited, and chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life while keeping continuity of care with a registered professional.
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