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Amanda Parry, BACP

Credentials: BACP
Experience: 3 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuse Grief Coping with life changes

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Amanda Parry offers a warm, client-centred approach to therapy. She uses listening and thoughtful reflection to help people make sense of difficult feelings. Amanda draws on psychodynamic and trauma-focused ways of working alongside Jungian and existential ideas to support change.

She keeps sessions simple and plain. People are invited to talk, notice dreams, or use imagery to open up how they feel. Amanda speaks in everyday language and helps people name what is happening rather than using clinical jargon.

Background and approach

Amanda has three years' professional experience and is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She continues to engage in therapy and regular supervision herself as part of professional development. This ongoing learning shapes how she listens and responds.

The work often focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression and trauma and abuse. She also helps people struggling with relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, compassion fatigue and life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment, body image, sexuality and family of origin issues.

Sessions aim to build clearer understanding and practical ways to cope. Amanda supports people working through dissociation, commitment concerns, midlife questions, or feelings of emptiness and isolation. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

People come away with better self-awareness and tools to manage everyday stress. The style is steady, curious and respectful, with attention to both past patterns and present challenges.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Amanda blends client-centred work with trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas to guide online therapy. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for stress, low mood and relationship concerns. Trauma-focused work pays attention to how past hurt affects daily life and supports stabilising and coping strategies for those experiences. Psychodynamic approaches look at recurring patterns and early relationships to help people understand how old habits shape current feelings and choices.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will try out ways of working that fit. The plan can change as insight grows and needs shift, so the process stays collaborative and responsive.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be quicker to arrange, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and enable continuity when attending in person is difficult.

What concerns does Amanda specialise in?

Amanda works with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma and abuse. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief and self-esteem.

What is Amanda's therapeutic style like?

Her work is largely client-centred with psychodynamic and trauma-focused influences. Sessions can include talking, working with dreams or imagery to help open up feelings.

How much professional experience does Amanda have?

She has three years' professional experience and continues with her own therapy and regular supervision as part of ongoing development.

Where is Amanda based and what credential does she hold?

Amanda practises in the United Kingdom and holds a BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English only.

What session formats are available online?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with Amanda?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Most often

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 3 years
Registered with: BACP
Languages: English

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Amanda Parry, BACP

Background and approach

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Others working with stress, anxiety