Amanda Bouvier, BACP

Amanda Bouvier offers calm, practical support for adults facing common but heavy struggles. She helps people manage anxiety, stress and depression, and talks through issues like grief, parenting strain and relationship worries. Amanda is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) counsellor with 15 years of experience, so she draws on a range of familiar approaches to suit each person.

Amanda uses straightforward conversations to help clients understand patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions focus on what matters to the person and on small, realistic steps that can change day-to-day life. She pays particular attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and to challenges linked to neurodiversity such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

People bring a wide mix of worries, from body image and eating concerns to career stress, chronic illness and caregiving pressure. Amanda also supports those dealing with bereavement, including the loss of a much-loved pet, and people coping with life transitions such as ageing or adoption and foster-care histories.

Therapy tends to blend practical thinking tools with a warm, client-centred stance. Cognitive-behavioural strategies are used alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and emotionally-focused work when a focus on feelings and relationships is helpful. Conversations are paced to each person’s needs and updated as goals change.

Amanda accepts international clients and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a person uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Amanda's approaches translate to online therapy

Amanda uses a mixture of approaches that suit different problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and early bonds; it helps when attachment or abandonment issues affect current relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thinking and behaviour and is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda talks with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to emphasise and adjust the plan as progress is made so therapy stays relevant to the person's life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is suited to deeper conversations and emotional work, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for shorter exchanges, and text messaging gives ongoing, convenient contact between sessions. These options let people access therapy around work, caregiving or travel, and choose what works best for them.