Amanda Bouvier
Compassionate counsellor for life's difficult moments
About Amanda
Amanda Bouvier offers straightforward, compassionate counselling for adults and teenagers who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She introduces a calm, readable approach that helps people talk through difficult feelings and find practical ways to cope. Amanda writes and speaks in plain terms to make that first contact easier for someone who is worried or unsure.
Amanda uses a mix of talking therapies to suit the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and behaviours, and then practises different ways of responding. Sessions focus on everyday challenges such as parenting strain, work stress, sleep and eating problems, low self-esteem, and intimacy or relationship difficulties. She also offers support around grief after the death of a person or an animal.
Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live in line with their values while managing painful emotions. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at early relationships and how they affect present-day patterns. Cognitive approaches help with anxiety and depression by identifying thoughts and testing them with small, practical steps.
Amanda has worked in therapeutic settings since 2010, bringing fifteen years of experience to her practice. She holds BACP accreditation, which denotes a recognised professional standard in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and Amanda accepts clients from outside the UK.
Her style is patient and steady, aimed at helping people make gradual, meaningful changes. If someone wants clear guidance and a responsive listener, Amanda offers a calm place to begin that work.
What Amanda works with
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Sessions & fees
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. This approach focuses on choosing actions that match what matters most, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people make sense of recurring difficulties in connection, communication and trust, and supports change in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will listen to goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. The choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper, conversational work while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy regular and to fit sessions around daily life.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
