Amanda Salvara
Practical counselling for stress and change
About Amanda
Amanda Salvara is a counsellor with five years' experience supporting people in the United Kingdom and internationally. She holds BACP accreditation and focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Amanda uses clear conversation to help clients find their next steps and get unstuck.
Amanda often starts by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. She checks where a client is now and where they want to get to.
Background and approach
From there she looks at the thoughts and behaviours that maintain difficulties and spots small changes that can make a difference. Her work draws on a few well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness practices and acceptance-based strategies. Amanda adapts the way she works to suit each person, using practical exercises, short experiments and reflective conversation.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the client's needs. She also pays attention to issues that can feel heavy or confusing, such as trauma, abuse, shame, body image and isolation. Amanda aims to create a steady process where problems are named and worked through one step at a time.
Progress is measured in real-life changes rather than abstract goals. People come for different reasons - to recover, to grow or to handle a life change. Amanda helps clients identify resources and plan small, achievable actions.
The focus is on building manageable skills and clearer choices for day-to-day life.
What Amanda works with
How Amanda works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on helping people live in line with their values while accepting difficult feelings. ACT offers simple exercises to clarify what matters and to take small committed steps toward those priorities.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT is practical and often uses short tasks or experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will choose ways of working that feel most useful. That process is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial cues and use exercises together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing reflections or when flexible timing is needed. These options offer practical access and allow therapy to continue across different life circumstances.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
