Amy Butterworth, BACP
5 years in practice
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage loss, stress and life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 386980 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
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About Amy
Amy Butterworth is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage loss, stress and life changes. She offers a calm, accepting space where clients can speak at their own pace and feel heard. Amy aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can tackle the issues that matter most to them.
Amy uses a person-centred foundation and blends other approaches to meet each person's needs. She often draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at feelings in relationships, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live with difficult thoughts.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural and attachment-based ideas may also be used when they fit the situation. She has five years' clinical experience and a background working in maternity settings within the NHS. That experience shaped a particular interest in pregnancy and postnatal difficulties, birth trauma, baby loss and grief.
Amy is also an accredited practitioner with the Foundation for Infant Loss and understands the particular pressures that can follow those experiences. Amy has developed personal and professional interest in neurodiversity, especially autism spectrum conditions and ADHD. That interest grew from caring for a child with special educational needs and disabilities, and it informs her sensitive approach with parents and carers.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Practical steps and coping strategies are offered alongside emotional work, so clients leave with clearer ways to manage everyday life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amy names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Amy’s approaches translate to online therapy
Amy often combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions in relationships and personal patterns, which can improve closeness and understanding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and small actions people can take, helping them move forward even when difficult thoughts or feelings remain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. The plan is collaborative so techniques can be adjusted as needs change during sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have limited bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, brief reflections or scheduling and can fit around busy days.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Amy commonly help with?
Amy works with grief, stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. She also supports people with parenting strain, career questions, addiction-related concerns and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She works from a person-centred foundation and blends other methods. The style is collaborative and practical, focusing on feelings, thinking patterns and values.
What is her professional background?
Amy has five years of clinical experience and nine years working in maternity services within the NHS. She has particular experience with pregnancy and postnatal difficulties.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can she see international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
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