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Amy Houston, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes
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Amy Houston helps people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and life changes. She also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, intimacy-related worries, eating and sleeping difficulties, and work-related stress. Amy is named in the first person only to introduce who she is and what she focuses on, then writes in a straightforward way about how she works.
Amy uses a client-centred approach. That means conversations focus on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and aims to understand each person’s experience before suggesting ways forward. Sessions are practical and down to earth. Clients can expect a relaxed space to talk through what’s worrying them.
Amy helps people clarify goals, spot patterns that hold them back, and try different ways of coping until something feels useful. Her background includes three years of professional practice in the United Kingdom and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Amy draws on that experience to offer steady support during difficult transitions.
People often come for help with specific problems such as communication and commitment issues, caregiver stress, body image and ADHD-related concerns. Amy also works with those facing domestic violence, separation and recovery from substance use, offering steady, non-judgemental guidance as they take next steps.
How client-centred work translates to online therapy
Amy practices client-centred therapy, which places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. In this style the counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach is useful for relationship worries, self-esteem struggles, grief and emotional recovery after trauma.In practice that looks like open conversation and careful listening rather than instruction. Amy will work collaboratively to identify goals and try different ways of coping. Together they will decide which methods and session formats suit the client's needs and preferences as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text options suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, family commitments or travel and to keep continuity when life is busy.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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