Amanda Guest, NCPS

Amanda Guest is a professional counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions and trauma. She also helps with low self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and life changes. Amanda works with people experiencing mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar disorder, and she supports those facing career strain, parenting stress and compassion fatigue. Amanda holds NCPS and has eight years of experience.

Her approach is collaborative and person-focused. She gives people space to say what matters and works together with them to set goals. Sessions are respectful and paced to each person’s needs rather than following a rigid script.

Amanda draws on a mix of methods including attachment-based and client-centred ways of working. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ideas when these suit a person’s goals. This mix helps her tailor sessions to issues like addiction, trauma and relationship difficulties.

In sessions she aims to build clearer communication, stronger self-awareness and practical coping strategies. That can include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, exploring emotional responses, or working on how to ask for what you need. The focus is on small, usable changes that fit into everyday life.

People from outside the UK can enquire about working together, and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to Amanda’s availability.

Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits

Amanda uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches alongside cognitive behavioural techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change repeated responses to stress or conflict. Client-centred work focuses on the person’s own priorities, offering a non-directive space to talk and reflect. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teach concrete strategies to manage anxiety, low mood or addictive urges.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda will work collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit best. She listens to goals and preferences, and adapts the mix of approaches as work progresses rather than sticking to a single method from the start.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the session formats before booking since specific options are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it can reduce travel time, allow quieter surroundings during a short break, or make a first chat feel less formal. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists can also use online meetings to follow-up on practical homework, check in after difficult weeks and keep progress going between face-to-face times when those are an option.