Amanda Romano Gutierres, BACP

Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One common approach focuses on understanding and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour to reduce anxiety and low mood; this helps people notice triggers and try new coping steps. Another approach centres on working through experiences of trauma and abuse by carefully processing difficult memories and building safety and stability in day-to-day life, which can reduce flashbacks and hypervigilance when used over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and decide together which techniques to try. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat works for short check-ins and messaging suits ongoing, flexible support. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use approaches consistently across sessions.