About Amy
Amy Butterworth welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or worn out. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to offer a calm space where clients can talk about grief, parenting pressures, stress, anxiety, and life changes. Amy is easy to reach by video, phone or messaging and she uses conversational, practical methods to help people make small changes that matter.
Amy practices from a person-centred base and draws on a range of helpful approaches.
How Amy works
She listens first and then suggests tools that suit each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative and paced to how the client is feeling on the day. She holds a BACP credential, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy registration.
Her pathway includes work supporting antenatal and postnatal difficulties, pregnancy loss, miscarriage, baby loss and birth trauma. Amy also has experience addressing bereavement, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship and family concerns. Over five years of formal counselling experience are combined with nine years of maternity work within the NHS.
That background shaped her interest in infant loss and perinatal issues and led to accreditation with the Foundation for Infant Loss. She also brings direct caring experience for a child with special educational needs and disabilities, which informs her work with parents and carers.
In sessions she may use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused techniques depending on what fits. Amy aims to help people build coping skills, clarify values and take steps that feel achievable.
Amy lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Amy works with
The areas below are the ones Amy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- 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 work online
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and learning small psychological skills to act in line with those values, which can help with anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and feelings and can help with grief, relationship and family-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Amy will discuss different methods with each person and decide together which techniques best match goals, preferences and the issues being faced. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what feels useful for the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people work through issues face to face, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier if being on camera is difficult, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
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