Amy Butterworth , BACP

Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who focuses on women's issues alongside a wide range of personal concerns. She creates a calm, warm space and meets people where they are. Sessions move at each person's pace and aim to help people feel heard and accepted. Amy describes her work as collaborative and person centred.

Amy blends approaches to suit the person in front of her. That may include acceptance and commitment work, cognitive tools to manage thoughts, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships. She also uses emotionally focused ideas to help people notice and name feelings.

Her background includes nine years working in maternity services within the NHS. That experience informs her work with pregnancy and postnatal issues, birth trauma, and infant loss. She is an accredited practitioner with the Foundation for Infant Loss and brings that experience into sessions where it is needed.

Amy has developed an interest in neurodiversity through personal experience as a carer for a child with additional needs. She supports parents and carers who are juggling caring roles alongside other life demands.

With five years of counselling practice beyond her NHS work, she commonly helps people with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strains, stress, addiction concerns, and challenges around self-esteem and life changes. Her manner is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on practical steps that fit daily life.

Therapeutic approaches that work online

Amy commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that line up with what matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of connection shape current relationships and helps people understand and shift those patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest techniques to try. That choice is made together so the therapy feels useful and practical for day-to-day life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier between commitments. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities, or other practical demands.