Amy Butterworth, BACP
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing depression and related worries.
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing depression and related worries. She uses a warm, accepting manner to make it easier to talk about painful feelings. Amy aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.
She works in a person-centred way and often blends other approaches to suit the person. Sessions focus on listening, building insight and finding practical steps to make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Amy emphasises safety, being heard and feeling accepted as the starting point for change. Amy holds BACP, which indicates her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has five years of experience as a practising counsellor and psychotherapist, alongside nine years of maternity work within the NHS.
Her practice has a strong focus on pregnancy and postnatal issues, including antenatal and postnatal difficulties, pregnancy loss and birth trauma. She is an accredited practitioner with the Foundation for Infant Loss and offers support for bereavement and grief.
More recently Amy has developed an interest in neurodiversity, especially autism and ADHD, informed by her experience as a carer for a child with additional needs. She often works with parents and carers who are navigating SEND-related challenges and the strain that can bring.
In sessions she combines client-centred listening with techniques drawn from cognitive behavioural and emotion-focused work to tackle stress, anxiety, addictions, sleep and self-esteem. Practical coping strategies and small goal-setting are common tools she uses in therapy.
Registration
| 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
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, 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
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.
Online support
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk through goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best. Together the person and Amy check what feels most helpful and adapt the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Text and chat work well for short updates, practical coaching or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties and daily life.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Amy commonly help with?
She works with people experiencing depression, anxiety, grief and stress, along with relationship and parenting difficulties, sleep and eating concerns, and issues around trauma and abuse.
What style of therapy does she use?
Amy works primarily in a person-centred way and blends methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ideas to suit each person.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist, plus nine years working in maternity services within the NHS.
What credentials and location are listed?
Her credential is BACP, showing registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what works best for the person.
How are sessions paid for and what is the cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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