About Amie
Amie Coates helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or the after-effects of trauma and abuse. She is clear and straightforward in sessions and aims to make conversations easy to follow. Amie works with grief, self-esteem and motivation concerns, and with people dealing with relationship breakdowns and family problems.
Amie has 17 years of experience working in independent practice, schools, further education and with charities. She trained in integrative counselling, which means she draws on several approaches to shape therapy.
How Amie works
Amie combines client-centred ways of working with techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and emotionally-focused ideas when these fit what a person needs. In sessions she listens first and adapts what happens to each person. That might mean talking through thoughts and behaviours, practising small changes between sessions, or focusing on emotions and how they affect relationships.
The emphasis is on practical steps people can try and on building the skills needed to manage day-to-day challenges. Her wider focus includes adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, eating and food-related concerns, and issues such as guilt, shame and forgiveness.
Amie also supports people facing life purpose questions, midlife changes, money worries and the fallout from separation. People can expect calm, respectful sessions that respect their autonomy. Amie aims to tailor a plan with clear goals and to review progress as therapy continues.
Amie lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Amie works with
The areas below are the ones Amie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Amie uses different approaches online
Client-centred work is about listening and following what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs space to speak and to be understood, and it guides how the rest of therapy is shaped.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Online CBT can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful behaviour by teaching practical skills and small experiments to try between sessions.
Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on emotions and how they affect relationships and personal patterns. It can be useful when strong feelings are getting in the way of connection or decision-making.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences, and together they will choose methods that feel right. That collaborative approach means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls are closest to in-person meetings and allow face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter exchanges, written reflection or busy days when a full session is hard to fit in.
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