Polly Amies
Compassionate counsellor combining practical strategies and listening
About Polly
Polly Amies is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with a BACP credential and four years of experience. She combines a warm, human-centred style with practical tools to help people who are finding life hard. Polly speaks English and accepts international clients through online sessions.
Polly frames the work around each person's story and strengths. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to the client. Expect a calm, respectful conversation where the counsellor listens first and then suggests steps you can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people with stress, anxiety and depression, and with grief and trauma. Polly also helps with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, addictions, and self-esteem difficulties. She has experience with neurodiversity, ADHD and some long-term health and caregiving challenges.
Polly uses approaches such as client-centred therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness to shape the work. That means conversations that build insight, practical strategies to change thinking or behaviour, and attention to the present moment to reduce overwhelm. She also employs solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing when helpful.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
What Polly works with
How Polly works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can try online with Polly
Polly commonly uses client-centred therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness in her online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client feels heard and understood; it helps people build confidence and make sense of their feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety, shift mood and change unhelpful routines. Mindfulness practices help ground someone in the present moment and can reduce rumination or overwhelming thoughts.Choosing the right approach is part of the first sessions. Polly will work together with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means the plan can change as needs become clearer over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, short coaching-style work or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
