About Amber
Amber Sexton is a BACP counsellor who has built five years of practice helping people make sense of difficult life moments. She focuses on clear, steady support so clients can explore what led them here and decide what they want next. Amber works at a relational counselling service and brings a calm, compassionate manner to sessions.
Her approach is practical and paced to the individual. She helps people look at thoughts, patterns and relationships that get in the way of feeling okay.
How Amber works
Sessions focus on understanding past experiences, building self-awareness and finding useful coping strategies for day-to-day life. Amber draws on several approaches to tailor work to each person. That can mean noticing how attachments shape current relationships, using techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, or focusing on values and action to move forward.
She also uses skills from dialectical and client-centred work when they fit the situation. She has experience supporting people with relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety and LGBT concerns. Other areas she addresses include parenting and intimacy-related worries, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career change, and coping with life transitions.
Amber trained in counselling and has a BSc (Hons) in counselling and a foundation degree in science counselling. She also completed continuing professional development on crisis safety planning, working with suicidal parts, and approaches for shame and the body. Her practice aims to be collaborative and focused on small, practical steps.
Sessions are offered in English and Amber is available to work with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. She adapts session style to individual needs and helps people find manageable ways to cope and move forward.
Amber 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
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
What Amber works with
The areas below are the ones Amber selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify their values and take small actions that matter to them. It focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current connections and patterns. It helps clients understand why certain relationship cycles repeat and develop new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try techniques together to see what fits. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the focus as needs change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and keep a face-to-face feel. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit into a commute or a shorter break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or people who prefer written reflection. Registered or accredited professionals can combine these options to match pace and lifestyle, making therapy more accessible and easier to maintain.
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