Amanda Cooper
Practical therapy for trauma and life change
About Amanda
Amanda Cooper supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship or intimacy difficulties. She works with concerns such as addiction, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue. Amanda also helps with life changes, career questions and ADHD-related struggles.
She is experienced with trauma and abuse, and offers focused support around fertility, chronic pain or illness, blended family issues and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink. Amanda uses a practical, down-to-earth approach.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to find the deeper causes behind repeating patterns of behaviour. That might mean looking past alcohol use, for example, to understand the feelings beneath it. She encourages open talking and aims to make therapy feel hopeful and non-judgemental.
Her background includes over 13 years working as a psychotherapy clinician. Much of that time was leading short-term residential wellbeing services in Warwickshire where she provided therapy, supervised other clinicians and developed psychological programmes. That work often involves complex presentations and multi-layered needs.
Amanda holds a Diploma in Psychotherapy from the Human Givens Institute and an MSc with Merit in Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London. She also has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and additional postgraduate study in memory, narrative and trauma recovery processes. Her listed credential is NCPS.
Therapy with Amanda is collaborative and goal-focused. She will adapt the pace and methods to each person and commonly uses messaging before the first session to make the most of initial conversations. Sessions can be by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
What Amanda works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Amanda commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on finding and addressing the roots of emotional patterns. One approach involves trauma recovery processes that help people work through past hurts and reduce the ways those memories affect current life. This can be useful for anxiety, phobias and responses to abuse.She also uses narrative and memory-based methods that help people reframe negative self-talk. These techniques use stories, metaphors and memory work to shift unhelpful beliefs and improve self-esteem and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences and how you have responded to past support, then tailor methods to suit you. The plan can change as therapy progresses so the approach remains a good fit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows, phone sessions can be quicker and use less data, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments and make it easier to keep continuity over time.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
