About me
Welcome
At times, it can feel like you are constantly abandoning your own needs just to keep those around you safe, comfortable, or happy.
When you spend your life meeting external expectations, masking your true processing style, or taking on emotional over-responsibility, your true sense of self gets lost.
If you are navigating chronic burnout, the destabilising impact of difficult family or relationship dynamics, or a sense of permanently walking on eggshells, you do not have to carry that heavy overwhelm alone.
I’m Amy, a fully qualified, BACP-registered therapist based in Knutsford. I provide a calm, neuro-affirming, and deeply reflective space designed to help you explore your life experiences without judgment, without rigid clinical diagnostic labels, and entirely at your own pace.
My Approach to Therapy
My background combines a Person-Centred, non-directive framework with Positive Psychology. This integration informs an equal, human partnership focused on two key pillars:
Understanding What Keeps You Stuck: We will look gently at your life experiences to understand deep-seated relational patterns, emotional responses, and what may be maintaining your current difficulties.
Uncovering Your Inherent Assets: We use a strengths-based lens to explore your baseline resilience, foster self-worth, and support you to find authentic paths toward everyday emotional well-being and genuine self-acceptance.
Areas of Focus
As a therapist currently working within an NHS-commissioned crisis and high-intensity framework, I am highly experienced in supporting individuals through acute distress, trauma, and significant emotional over-responsibility during periods of major uncertainty and change.
I focus on supporting individuals with:
The Fog of Relational Trauma & Coercive Control: Gently exploring the lingering, destabilising voice of gaslighting, emotional neglect, or family and relationship breakdowns. If past dynamics have left you doubting your own reality, memory, or instincts, my trauma-informed approach supports you to safely rebuild your self-trust.
Neurodiversity-Informed Support (Autism, ADHD, OCD, & Neurodivergent Burnout): Offering an inclusive, neuro-affirming space responsive to different ways of thinking, feeling, and processing. I support individuals navigating the deep fatigue of autistic masking, ADHD executive dysfunction shame, sensory overwhelm, or the exhausting mental loops of OCD. You don't need a formal diagnosis to explore how your processing style impacts your well-being.
Chronic People-Pleasing & Boundary Fatigue: Supporting those who struggle with self-neglect and difficulty staying connected to their own needs within relationships. We work on building awareness of these patterns and how they impact your self-worth over time.
Identity Reclamation: Safely redirecting the massive amounts of energy you spend managing other people's moods, and focusing it inward to figure out who you actually are outside of the roles you play for others.
Training, qualifications & experience
Academic Qualifications.
MSc in Counselling and Positive Psychology (Advanced postgraduate degree combining humanistic, non-directive psychotherapeutic frameworks with the science of resilience)
BSc (Hons) in Psychology (Core academic grounding in human behaviour and emotional development)
Specialised Certifications & Training
Level 3 Certificate: Neurodiversity & Inclusion Train-the-Trainer Certified Neurodiversity & Inclusion Trainer & Strengths-Based Practitioner via the Positive Psychology Guild (PPG). (Advanced training focused on strengths-based support for Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's, and OCD).
SSCP Multi-Agency Training: Partnership Approach to All Age Domestic Abuse (Covers coercive control, family dynamics, safe disclosure management, and the DASH/RIC risk framework).
NAPAC Training: Trauma-Informed Practice & Responding to Disclosures
Training completed with the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC), focusing on trauma-informed principles, responding safely and sensitively to disclosures of trauma or abuse, and implementing grounding techniques to prevent re-traumatisation.
Professional Registrations
Registered Member of the BACP (MBACP): Fully qualified and practicing in strict accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework.
Current NHS-Commissioned Crisis Care : Actively working within a statutory-commissioned crisis framework, managing immediate risk assessments, executing multi-agency safety protocols, and supporting individuals through acute psychiatric, emotional, or relational emergencies.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Finding the Right Fit
Choosing the right therapist is an important decision. To help you decide whether my non-directive approach feels right for you, I offer a free, 15-minute initial phone or video consultation.
Fees
Online Sessions £50 per 50-minute session.
In-Person Sessions £55 per 50-minute session (Held in a calm, welcoming counselling room in Knutsford).
Location & Availability
I offer both face-to-face and online sessions to support your personal comfort, pace, and flexibility:
Online (Video via secure platform)
In-Person (Knutsford, WA16): Thursdays (Daytime & Evening slots).
Weekend Availability: Saturdays/Sundays (Limited slots). Please contact me directly to discuss flexible options.
Next Steps:
To check my current diary availability or to book your free 15-minute introductory consultation, please use the secure "Message me" or "Book introductory call" buttons on this profile.
Further information
I work from a professional therapy room in the centre of Knutsford, close to local transport links and parking. The room is quiet, private, and set within a professional counselling environment.
Please note the practice room is located on the first floor and accessed via stairs.
I also offer online sessions via a secure video platform for those who prefer or require remote therapy.
