Polly Amies, BACP
Polly Amies is a BACP counsellor working from the United Kingdom.
- Stress & Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- +18 more
About Polly
Polly Amies is a BACP counsellor working from the United Kingdom. She brings long experience supporting adults and young people across a variety of settings, and has spent recent years running a independent practice.
Polly works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and grief, and aims to create a calm, responsive space for people to talk through what matters to them. She uses a warm, person-focused style and believes clients know their own stories best.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a single method, so practical steps and gentle reflection sit alongside listening. Polly often helps people notice strengths they already have and build on them in small, manageable ways. Her practice includes support for trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating issues, and coping with life changes.
She also works with neurodiversity-related matters and ADHD, and offers help with career stress, compassion fatigue and caregiver strain. Her additional focus areas include ageing and geriatric issues, chronic illness and disability, blended family matters and body image. Polly draws on approaches such as client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and solution-focused techniques.
She uses motivational interviewing where people are weighing changes or choices. These methods are used so sessions stay practical and connected to real life. Polly offers sessions online and accepts international clients.
She aims to make the first steps straightforward and supportive, and to help people find workable ways forward for day-to-day life.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 393613 | May 2026 |
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.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Polly works with
Everything Polly lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Polly lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. CBT offers practical exercises and simple tools to try between sessions, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Mindfulness is used alongside these approaches to build awareness and calm, often through short, guided practices that fit into everyday routines.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Polly will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that suit the person’s needs. That collaborative planning means therapy can be adjusted if something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow a closer sense of connection, phone sessions can be quicker to fit into a lunch break, and text or chat can work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy on a regular schedule around work, caring duties or travel.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Polly commonly help with?
Polly works with stress, anxiety and depression, plus relationship and grief issues. She also supports people facing trauma, addictions, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, and career or caregiver strain.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She takes a warm, person-focused approach that listens first and then offers practical steps. Sessions combine reflective listening with tools from CBT, mindfulness and solution-focused work.
How much experience does she have?
Polly has four years of recent practice and many more years of work supporting adults and young people across varied therapeutic settings. That breadth informs her approach in sessions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and practising from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Polly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexibility in how people meet.
How is cost handled for sessions?
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 and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that you can schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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