Amanda Bouvier, BACP

Amanda Bouvier offers calm, practical support for people facing worry, loss and relationship pain. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. Amanda works with adults and teenagers and has spent 15 years helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief and low mood. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, trauma, intimacy concerns and issues around identity and belonging.

She uses everyday language in sessions and helps people notice what gets in the way of the life they want. Amanda draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people try new ways of responding. She also uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches when relationships and early patterns are part of the difficulty.

Amanda has experience with adoption and foster care questions, abandonment and attachment-related concerns, parenting strain, blended family challenges and age-related life changes. She has worked with people affected by chronic illness, cancer, caregiving stress and body image or eating concerns. She is comfortable supporting clients from the LGBT community and those who have lost a pet or family member.

Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking and noticing what matters most. Amanda encourages small experiments between meetings so people can test changes in daily life. She aims to create a steady, straightforward therapeutic space for people to make sense of difficult feelings and move towards goals they set together.

How Amanda's approaches translate to online work

Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify personal values and take small, meaningful steps towards them. ACT aims to reduce avoidance and build a fuller life even when difficult feelings remain. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will discuss options and try methods that fit your goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can shift if something isn’t helping.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue therapy when life changes make in-person meetings harder. Registered or accredited professionals like Amanda aim to adapt exercises and conversations so they work well over distance, helping clients practise new responses between sessions.