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Amanda Crane, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefParenting issues
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Amanda Crane offers practical, person-focused counselling that aims to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. She uses a warm, conversational style to make it easier to talk about stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns. Amanda's approach is straightforward and calm, and she explains options so people can choose what feels right for them.
She is registered with the National Counsellors and Psychotherapists Society, NCPS. Amanda has five years of professional experience working with adults on issues such as depression, addictions, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, and challenges with intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her background also includes work with trauma, ADHD and a wide range of life changes. Amanda draws on Client-Centred Therapy to keep sessions focused on the person and what matters to them. She combines this with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing are used to build small, realistic steps towards change. Sessions are offered in English and take place by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Amanda works with people across the United Kingdom and follows a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.
Her style is encouraging and practical. People leave sessions with clear ideas to try between meetings. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Amanda combines Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people make steady progress. Client-Centred Therapy means sessions are guided by the person's priorities and experiences, with the counsellor offering empathy and non-judgemental listening. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and gives concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest ways to proceed. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments, while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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