- Years in practice
- 5
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Career difficulties
- Focus
- Compassion fatigue
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing parenting challenges, grief and life changes. She aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk at their own pace and feel heard. Amy uses straightforward, practical ways to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship strain.
She follows a person-centred way of working, meeting people where they are and listening carefully to their experience.
Background and approach
Amy also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance and commitment principles when these fit a person’s goals. Emotionally-focused and attachment-based approaches inform her help around bonding, loss and intimate relationships. Amy has five years’ experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
Much of her background includes supporting people through pregnancy and postnatal difficulties, miscarriage and baby loss, and she has worked in maternity settings within the NHS. She is interested in neurodiversity, particularly autism spectrum conditions and ADHD, informed in part by caring for a child with special educational needs and disabilities.
Amy supports parents and carers navigating those challenges and the practical strains that come with them. Clients can expect a collaborative approach. Sessions focus on what matters now and on building useful skills for coping.
Amy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amy helps people with.
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Amy’s approaches work online
Amy uses person-centred principles alongside acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas to guide online work. Person-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what the client says, which helps people feel understood and able to explore concerns at their own pace. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it helps people identify actions that match their values. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns, which can be useful for grief, bonding and relationship difficulties.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Amy will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose techniques that suit the person and adapt them as sessions progress so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be quicker and easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer to write. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, childcare and day-to-day life.
Questions people ask about Amy
What issues does Amy help with?
Amy works with a wide range of concerns including grief, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. She also supports people facing trauma, eating and sleeping problems, and self-esteem or anger issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is person-centred and collaborative, and she may use elements from cognitive behavioural and acceptance and commitment approaches. The focus is practical support and helping clients find ways to manage everyday challenges.
How much experience does she have?
Amy has five years of experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist, including work in maternity settings within the NHS and independent practice supporting perinatal loss and related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats does she offer?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are fees and cancellations handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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