Amanda Burridge, BACP

Amanda Burridge is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, loss and life transitions. She talks with people about grief, health-related worries and changes in self-esteem. Her style is calm and down to earth, with a gentle, curious manner that can include lightness when appropriate.

With a BACP credential and about four years of practice, Amanda focuses on building a supportive therapeutic relationship. She aims to notice strengths alongside difficulties so people can see small shifts and new possibilities. Sessions are intended to be human and straightforward rather than clinical or distant.

Amanda draws on Client-Centred Therapy to create a respectful, listening space. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try practical changes. These approaches are used flexibly to suit each person’s concerns.

She has worked with people facing bereavement, coping with cancer, parenting strain, workplace stress and midlife crossroads. Amanda also supports those dealing with attachment issues, caregiver stress, end-of-life matters and pregnancy or postpartum challenges. Her aim is to help people voice what matters and find ways to cope day to day.

People are encouraged to take a first step when ready by using the site process to match with her. Sessions are offered in English and take place in the United Kingdom. The tone of her work is steady, compassionate and practical.

How Amanda’s approaches translate to online counselling

Amanda draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and responding with empathy. This approach helps people feel heard and understood while they talk through grief, relationship strains or life purpose questions.

She also uses ideas from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help identify patterns of thinking that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT-style work often includes small, practical tasks and experiments to try between sessions to test different ways of coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to each person’s goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may change as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins on a workday. It can also suit people who prefer conversational, task-focused work from a familiar setting.