Amber Sexton
Compassionate counsellor blending practical skills and relational work
About Amber
Amber Sexton is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has five years of professional experience and focuses on helping people make sense of painful experiences and move forward. Amber aims to create a respectful, warm space where people feel heard and can work at their own pace.
She uses a mix of practical talking and skills-based approaches to help with low mood, anxiety, relationship difficulties and stress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include checking what matters most to the person and finding small, do-able steps toward those goals. Amber also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, identity concerns and parenting stress. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science with honours in counselling and a Foundation Degree in Science Counselling.
She has worked in NHS-linked services and community settings, which has shaped her way of working with different life challenges. Amber is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. In sessions she blends approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work and client-centred listening.
This means she will both listen closely and suggest practical strategies to reduce distress. The aim is to increase self-awareness and build everyday coping skills. People who choose Amber can expect a straightforward, compassionate style.
She encourages collaboration about goals and pace. If someone prefers structured exercises or gentler exploration, she adapts the work to fit that preference and life circumstances.
What Amber works with
How Amber works
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Sessions & fees
How Amber’s approaches can work online
Amber draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT is useful for low mood, worry and unhelpful habits.She also uses attachment-informed work that looks at patterns in relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. That approach helps with intimacy-related issues, communication problems and attachment concerns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Amber will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit their needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
