About Amy
Amy Houston helps people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with addictions, grief, intimacy concerns and ADHD. Amy presents in a calm, straightforward way and aims to make first steps feel easier for someone who is worried or unsure.
Amy works from a client-centred approach. That means she listens closely and follows what each person brings to the room.
How Amy works
Conversations focus on the client's experience, values and choices rather than a rigid set of techniques. Sessions are set up so people can talk without feeling judged. Amy encourages honest, simple talk about feelings and behaviours.
Together she and the client look for practical ways to cope and to try different ways of responding to difficult moments. Her background includes three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Amy uses that experience to offer steady support for practical concerns such as sleep, eating, career stress and parenting strain. She also works with concerns that overlap with relationships, including communication problems, commitment worries and infidelity. Amy aims to help people feel clearer about what they want and how to take the next step toward feeling better.
Amy lists one way 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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Client-centred help delivered online
Amy works from a client-centred approach which focuses on listening and following each person's needs. This method helps when someone wants a space to talk through feelings, make sense of relationship trouble or cope with grief and low mood. It aims to put the person's experience at the heart of the conversation and to support choices that feel right for them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will discuss how client-centred ways of working might suit a person and adapt sessions to their goals and preferences. She treats the process as a collaboration, checking in about what helps and what to try next.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and tone, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging suits those who prefer typing or slower replies. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose the way of working that feels most comfortable.
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