Amy Butterworth, BACP
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by loss, stress, or big life changes.
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by loss, stress, or big life changes. She meets clients where they are and focuses on creating a calm, accepting space to talk. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, suitable for someone needing a steady listening ear and practical steps forward.
Amy works in a person-centred way and often blends other approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help with thought patterns and everyday coping.
Background and approach
Sessions can include talking through feelings, trying new ways to respond, and setting small goals to make daily life easier. She has five years' experience as a counsellor and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background includes work with grief, antenatal and postnatal difficulties, birth trauma, and baby loss, alongside stress, anxiety and depression.
Amy also brings experience from nine years working in maternity services within the NHS and holds accreditation with the Foundation for Infant Loss. That experience informs her approach when supporting people affected by pregnancy-related distress and bereavement. She has developed an interest in neurodiversity through lived experience as a carer for a child with special educational needs and disabilities.
This informs how she supports parents and carers navigating additional practical and emotional strain. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Practical options are discussed at the first meeting to suit each person’s needs and routines.
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 386980 | February 2027 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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
Ways of working Amy names
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor lists and does not check training records.
How Amy’s approaches work online
Amy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. ACT can support people struggling with anxiety, grief or changes in life by focusing on practical steps they can take.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused ideas to understand how important relationships shape feelings and behaviour. These approaches help when someone is working through loss, intimacy issues or patterns that repeat in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. She collaborates on what to try and checks in regularly to see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people keep visual contact, phone can be used when bandwidth is low, live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help fit therapy into busy routines and make it simpler to connect from different places.
Frequently asked
What problems does Amy help with?
She supports people with grief, stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns, as well as parenting, career and addiction-related issues.
What is her general counselling style?
Her work is person-centred and collaborative, with a willingness to blend approaches so therapy fits the person rather than the other way round.
What experience does she bring?
Amy has five years' experience as a counsellor and nine years working in maternity services within the NHS, which shapes her work with pregnancy and infant loss.
How is she accredited and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and routines.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are accessed through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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