Amy Butterworth, BACP
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by grief, anxiety, stress or major life changes.
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by grief, anxiety, stress or major life changes. She offers a calm, accepting space where clients can talk through painful experiences at their own pace. Amy uses a person-centred approach and listens first to what matters most to each person.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when helpful, and often integrates attachment work and emotionally-focused ideas.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding patterns that cause distress. Amy explains therapeutic options and tailors them to each person’s goals. Amy brings five years of clinical experience and a broader background supporting people through pregnancy loss, birth trauma and postnatal difficulties.
She is BACP registered, which is shown here as BACP. Her professional pathway also includes work within maternity services, where she supported people through antenatal and postnatal concerns. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity, including autism spectrum conditions and ADHD, informed in part by personal experience as a carer.
This perspective influences how she supports parents and carers managing the extra strain that caring can bring. Amy offers sessions in English and works with people across a wide range of issues such as addiction, relationships, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self‑esteem and coping with life changes.
Her style is warm, collaborative and practical, with an emphasis on helping people make small, manageable changes. To begin, Amy asks people to describe their main concerns and goals so she can suggest an approach that fits. She supports people who want talking therapy alongside short coaching work when that suits their aims.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 386980 | February 2027 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, 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 counselling
- 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 lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online support
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Decisions are made together and can change as work progresses to match what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are like face-to-face meetings when seeing non-verbal cues matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family, work and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical, evidence-based approaches.
Frequently asked
What problems does Amy commonly help with?
She works with grief, anxiety, stress, depression, addictions and many life changes. Other common concerns include parenting strain, relationship difficulties, eating and sleeping issues, and coping after trauma.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Amy takes a person-centred approach and adapts methods to each person. She often uses ACT, CBT and attachment ideas to create clear, practical steps alongside emotional support.
What is her background and clinical experience?
She has five years of clinical experience and several years working in maternity services. That background informs her work with pregnancy and postnatal issues and birth-related grief.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She practises in the United Kingdom and is BACP registered, shown here as BACP.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with people within the United Kingdom.
What formats are available for therapy sessions?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and subscriptions handled?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and is provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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