Amanda Guest
Compassionate counsellor for life’s difficult moments
About Amanda
Amanda Guest supports people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and low self-esteem. She works with those facing life changes, grief, relationship or intimacy concerns, and eating or parenting challenges. Amanda also offers help for mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, plus ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Amanda takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. She gives people space to talk and listens without judgment. Sessions are collaborative - she and the person set goals together and work at a practical pace.
Background and approach
Her style draws on client-centred methods that prioritise the person's own experience and pace. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used when helpful to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Over eight years Amanda has supported people through bereavement, relationship separation, addiction and recovery, and the impact of trauma. She pays attention to how issues like codependency, control problems or dissociation can affect day-to-day life. Her background includes work with people facing both substance and alcohol difficulties.
Amanda holds NCPS, which is listed as her credential. She works with international clients and runs sessions in English. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk, with a focus on practical steps and clearer thinking.
What Amanda works with
How Amanda works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online support
Amanda uses client-centred counselling, which focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. In practice this means sessions start with what the person wants to address and the pace is set by them. Attachment-based work is used to look at patterns formed in early relationships and how those patterns affect current feelings and reactions. This can help with anxiety, trust issues and relationship troubles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. That shared planning makes it easier to adjust techniques if something does not feel helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can suit quick check-ins, written reflection or people who find typing easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
