Amy Butterworth, BACP
5 years in practice
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who aims to make the first steps toward help feel simple and manageable.
License and registration
- BACP
- 386980 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who aims to make the first steps toward help feel simple and manageable. She creates a calm, accepting space and listens closely to what matters to each person. Amy meets people where they are and moves at a pace that feels right for them.
She uses a person-centred way of working and often blends other approaches to meet individual needs. That can mean practical strategies for day-to-day stress or gentler, reflective conversations about meaning and loss.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what the person wants to address, whether that is anxiety, grief, relationship worries or changes at work. Amy has practical experience supporting people through pregnancy and postnatal difficulties, miscarriage, baby loss and birth trauma. She also has experience with bereavement, depression, addiction, and trauma.
Her background includes work in the NHS and a focus on the emotional impact of caregiving. Personal experience caring for a child with additional needs has influenced her interest in neurodiversity and in supporting parents and carers of family members with special educational needs and disabilities. She can talk about parenting strain, role overload, and balancing care with other life demands.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation, listening, and practical ideas when needed. Amy explains therapeutic approaches in plain language and helps people decide what might work best for them. She offers sessions from the United Kingdom in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amy lists on their public professional profile, 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 counseling
- 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 names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches you might use in online sessions
Amy commonly draws on Existential therapy to help people talk about life changes, meaning, loss and what matters to them. This approach encourages open conversation about values and choices and can help when someone faces uncertainty or grief.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT supports people to take small, values-based actions even when emotions are hard, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy aims to discuss options with each person and decide collaboratively which techniques fit their goals and preferences. She adapts what she offers as conversations progress rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit longer, face-to-face conversations; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support shorter check-ins, written reflection or ongoing coaching-style support between calls. These options help people fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Amy commonly help with?
Amy works with issues such as grief, anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, addictions, and trauma-related problems.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centred approach and blends other methods as needed, focusing on listening, validation, and practical steps agreed with the client.
What relevant experience does she bring?
She has five years of therapy experience and nine years working in maternity roles within the NHS, with a particular interest in pregnancy, postnatal issues and birth trauma.
What credentials and location are recorded?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practices from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and client regions are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently working with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled?
Fees vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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