About Amy
Amy Mayhew is a person-centred counsellor who offers a warm, down-to-earth approach to difficult feelings. She focuses on anxiety, stress and addictions while also helping with relationship worries and low self-esteem. Amy speaks plainly and listens carefully so people feel heard and understood.
She believes clients know themselves best and works alongside them rather than telling them what to do. Sessions move at the client's pace and aim to uncover what is holding someone back.
How Amy works
The goal is to reconnect people with their strengths and clarity so they can make decisions that feel right. Amy uses practical methods alongside her person-centred stance. She draws on cognitive behavioural tools to help change unhelpful thoughts and uses mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity in tense moments.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set small, achievable steps when someone wants to make a change. In five years of practice Amy has supported people through trauma and abuse, grief, and life transitions as well as issues such as abandonment, codependency and communication problems.
She also works with concerns tied to ageing, health challenges like cancer, and separation or divorce. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Amy holds BACP accreditation, and she practises from the United Kingdom.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions to suit them.
Amy lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
Using person-centred, cognitive and mindfulness methods online
Amy works from a person-centred base which means sessions start with the client's experience and priorities. This approach focuses on listening, empathic reflection and helping people find their own solutions, which can be especially helpful for anxiety and low self-esteem.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical alternatives. CBT is useful for reducing anxiety and managing stress by testing thoughts and changing behaviours. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these methods to build steady attention and reduce impulsive reactions in difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Amy will discuss options with each person and agree a plan based on the individual's goals and preferences. The relationship and shared decisions guide which methods are used and when to try different techniques.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility around work, family and travel. Video helps with face-to-face connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life and to continue progress between sessions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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