Amanda Cooper, NCPS

Amanda Cooper offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, low self-esteem, addictions and trauma. She also helps people dealing with sleep problems, anger, career stresses, depression and life changes. Amanda has a specific interest in ADHD, compassion fatigue and a range of sexuality and relationship concerns including BDSM and kink culture.

Amanda has worked as a full-time psychotherapy clinician for over 13 years. For a decade she led three short-term residential wellbeing facilities in Warwickshire. In that role she provided therapy, supervised teams of therapists and developed psychological programmes. Much of her work involves looking beneath surface behaviour to find underlying trauma or environmental causes.

She views emotional difficulties - such as problematic alcohol use or repeated relationship conflict - as signs pointing to deeper issues. Sessions focus on identifying those roots and on practical steps that change how someone feels and acts. Amanda aims for therapy to be hopeful and transformative rather than only analytical.

Her academic background includes an MSc (with Merit) in Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London, a BSc (Hons) First Class in Psychology from Arden University, and a Diploma (with Merit) in Psychotherapy from the Human Givens Institute. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Ethics, Justice and Memory from Harvard University and is RQTU qualified for psychometric testing.

Amanda is a member of the National Counselling Society and is listed as an Accredited Counsellor Member. She adapts her approach to each person, aims to be non-judgemental and often uses narrative and memory-focused techniques in trauma work. Before the first session she commonly exchanges a few messages to make the most of the appointment time.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Amanda commonly uses narrative and memory-based techniques to help people rewrite unhelpful patterns. Narrative work helps someone tell and reframe their life stories so that negative self-beliefs lose their hold. Memory-focused methods target troubling memories and strong emotional reactions, often helping reduce fear and phobic responses.

She also applies practical, evidence-informed interventions drawn from broader therapeutic approaches to address anxiety, trauma and relationship problems. These involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, trying small changes, and noticing how those changes affect daily life. The choice of approach is tailored to what the person wants to achieve and to how they respond as therapy unfolds.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to test methods, adjust techniques and agree goals so therapy fits their needs and preferences. She often exchanges messages with a person before the first appointment to make the session time more effective.

Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or health needs because it reduces travel and can allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also widens access for people who live further away from where therapists practice, while still letting therapists and clients focus on practical change and emotional recovery.