Amy Butterworth
Gentle, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She meets people where they are and offers a calm, accepting presence. Her style is warm and person-centred so clients can speak at their own pace.
She uses a blend of approaches to suit each person. That may include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioural tools. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on small, manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Amy has five years of counselling experience alongside nine years working in maternity settings within the NHS. That background informs her interest in pregnancy, birth-related concerns and infant loss. She is also an accredited practitioner with the Foundation for Infant Loss.
Personal experience as a carer has led her to take an interest in neurodiversity, including autism spectrum conditions and attention-deficit hyperactivity. She supports parents and carers who are coping with the practical and emotional strain of caring roles. Common areas she helps with include grief, parenting and stress, as well as anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues.
She also works with addiction, sleep and eating concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Sessions aim to clarify goals and build coping skills that fit everyday life. Amy offers video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions.
She uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and session cost varies by location and therapist availability.
What Amy works with
How Amy works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amy often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small committed actions, which can help with anxiety, stress and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at patterns in close relationships. This approach can help people understand emotional reactions and build more supported ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that feel most helpful. The process is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions suit those who need lower bandwidth or want a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging can fit around busy days and allow reflection in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and everyday 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
