Amy Murray
Calm practical support for everyday struggles
About Amy
Amy Murray offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. She helps with stress, anxiety, low mood, and problems with self-esteem. She also works with relationship strain, grief and loss, and life transitions.
Amy aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful. Amy has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She focuses on creating an open space where people can say what they think and feel without fear of being judged.
Background and approach
Sessions are client-led and paced to suit each person’s needs. In practice she helps people break down worries into small, practical steps. That can mean learning ways to handle anxiety, building confidence, or finding routines that make daily life easier.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, anger, or complicated family and relationship concerns. Amy works with issues such as bipolar mood management, ADHD, career stress, compassion fatigue, and adjustment to illness or caregiving roles. She also offers help around adoption and foster-care related matters, attachment concerns, body image and codependency.
Her approach is approachable and straightforward. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to the client and set achievable goals. People who want a supportive, non-judgemental counsellor may find her style helpful.
What Amy works with
Sessions & fees
How Amy brings therapy online with evidence-based methods
Amy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method helps by breaking worries into manageable steps and building confidence over time.Another commonly used approach works on emotional processing and coping after loss or trauma. It involves talking through difficult memories and learning new ways to respond so that painful feelings become easier to live with. This style can be useful for grief, abuse recovery and long-standing relationship pain.
Finding the right method is part of the therapy process. Amy will work collaboratively to choose approaches that match the person's needs, goals and preferences. She tailors sessions and checks in regularly to adjust pace and focus as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
