Amanda McHugh
About me
Fully qualified psychotherapist.
Specialist in working with anxiety and depression.
Experienced in working with people of all ages.
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
Experienced in working with people of all ages and backgrounds.
Volunteer counsellor with the charity MIND.
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Attachment disorder in children
- Autism
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Behaviour problems
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Childhood bereavement
- Childhood bullying
- Children’s learning difficulties
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dementia
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Depression and anxiety in children
- Disabilities
- Discrimination
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Loneliness
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Psychosis
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Separation anxiety
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tourette's syndrome
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
- Young carers
Fees
£30 per 1hr session.
Further information
Sooner or later life presents us with a situation or event that we can't control or 'fix'.
It is hugely compelling to look outward to the environment, that is, everything on the outside of us, for the answer to our predicament.
We mostly do this unconsciously and automatically. We reach out for what we think will make us feel better, food, drink, sex, medication ( prescribed or otherwise ) , a new outfit, hairstyle, partner, or anything else that is presented by the sellers of such things.
What we rarely do, what we avoid at all costs, is the very thing that would in fact make us feel better and provide relief from the pain and anguish we are experiencing.
The answer may be simple but counter intuitive, by that I mean every fibre of our being, the part of ourselves we experience as 'me', cries out for us to avoid, run away, or in some way protect ourselves from the thing we are most afraid to look at. Talking helps.
Maps & Directions
Type of session
Online counselling: | No |
Telephone counselling: | No |
Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Home visits: | No |
Practical details
Sign language: | Unspecified |
Other languages: | None |