Amanda Balaam
Calm, practical counselling focused on relationships and stress
About Amanda
Amanda Balaam uses a client-centred approach that places the person's experience at the heart of each session. She aims to listen carefully and respond with empathy and clarity so people feel heard and understood from the start. Amanda makes room for practical steps alongside open conversation to help people move forward.
Her work focuses on common but heavy problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and addictions. She also helps people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting strain and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She has a particular interest in attachment-related concerns and issues around self-esteem and identity. Amanda has practised for 17 years across settings in the United Kingdom. Her experience includes supporting people through life changes, bereavement, chronic illness and difficulties with communication or control.
Her background helps her recognise patterns that keep people stuck and find small, realistic ways to change them. She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. That means conversations that follow the person's direction, alongside practical steps and attention to how relationships affect wellbeing.
Sessions can move at the client's pace and focus on what matters most right now. Amanda is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. She offers sessions in English and works online by video call, phone, live chat or messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Amanda uses Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy to guide online work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviour, and it can help with intimacy issues, abandonment worries and attachment problems. Client-Centred Therapy follows the person's lead, offering empathetic listening and reflection so people can make sense of their feelings and choose next steps.She also brings a Solution-Focused approach that concentrates on practical, short-term goals. This approach helps when someone wants specific changes, such as improving sleep, managing anxiety or sorting communication problems. Together these approaches allow sessions to be flexible and tailored to what a person most needs in the moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and Amanda will collaborate with each person to decide what suits their goals and preferences. She discusses options, checks what feels helpful and adapts plans as things change over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow more visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life and to choose the pace and style that feels most manageable.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
