Amanda WiffenBACP

Amanda Wiffen is a UK-based counsellor who aims to make therapy approachable and manageable. She works at a gentle pace and focuses on helping people feel more in control of their future. Her manner is warm and calm, and she offers practical resources when they might help between sessions.

She acts as a guide when life feels overwhelming, supporting people through decision points and tricky emotions. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person’s needs, with space to reflect and try new ways of coping. Amanda offers tools alongside listening, so people can practise skills between meetings.

Her experience covers stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, low mood, ADHD, and autism. She also supports people facing loss, grief, workplace problems, and compassion fatigue. She can help people unpack patterns such as attachment issues, codependency, or communication problems.

Amanda uses approaches drawn from attachment-based work, client-centred practice, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and trauma-focused thinking. These inform how she listens, asks questions, and suggests exercises. The work aims to help people understand repeated patterns and build steadier ways of coping.

She holds BACP, which indicates membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Amanda has three years of counselling experience working with people in the United Kingdom. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

How Amanda’s approaches can work online

Amanda draws on attachment-based and trauma-focused ideas alongside client-centred listening. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape present reactions and helps people spot repeating patterns in close connections. Trauma-focused approaches focus on understanding and reducing the ongoing effects of past harm, using paced, supportive steps to help people feel steadier.

Client-centred practice means sessions centre on the person’s priorities. Amanda aims to collaborate on goals and methods, checking in about what helps and what doesn’t. Deciding which approach to use is a joint process that develops as trust grows and needs become clearer.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Many people find online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, with fewer travel demands and more flexibility for scheduling. Online work can also let someone pause or use quieter moments to practise mindfulness exercises, or choose shorter check-ins when days are hectic. Amanda will help tailor sessions to your needs, goals, and day-to-day constraints so the work fits into your routine rather than adding strain.