Amanda Cooper, NCPS

Amanda Cooper is a UK-based psychotherapist with 13 years of clinical experience who specialises in trauma, anxiety, relationship and intimacy challenges, addiction, self-esteem, and a broad range of life transitions and wellbeing concerns. She has spent much of her career directing short-term residential wellbeing programmes in Warwickshire, where she provides therapy, supervises clinical teams, and develops psychological programmes. That residential work has given her extensive experience managing complex presentations and understanding how behaviours such as problematic alcohol use or repeated relationship conflict often point to underlying trauma or environmental factors.

Amanda adopts a proactive, trauma-informed stance that aims to reach the source of distress rather than focus only on surface symptoms. She combines trauma recovery processes and narrative techniques that work with memory and metaphor to address negative thought patterns and phobias, and she supports clients with personal development, career issues, coping with life changes, and relational difficulties. Her style is non-judgemental, adaptable and focused on helping people feel progress early in therapy.

Amanda holds a range of academic and professional qualifications, including an MSc with Merit in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck, a First Class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Arden University, a Diploma with Merit in Psychotherapy from the Human Givens Institute, a Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Ethics, Justice, and Memory from Harvard University, and RQTU status for psychometric testing through the British Psychological Society. She is also an alumna of the Transformative Technology Academy and is completing an MBA while having commenced doctoral research at Birkbeck in January 2023. Her professional affiliations include accredited membership with the National Counselling Society and the ACC, Graduate Basis for Membership with the British Psychological Society, and an international affiliation with the American Psychological Association. Amanda offers therapy by video, phone or messaging and is happy to exchange a few messages before the first session to make the best use of appointment time and to accommodate clients who prefer message-based work.

Trauma-informed and narrative approaches for online care

Amanda uses trauma recovery processes that focus on identifying and working through the root causes of distress rather than only treating surface symptoms - this can help with trauma, phobias, anxiety and patterns that keep people feeling stuck. She also employs narrative and metaphor-based techniques that work with memory and personal stories to reframe negative thoughts and support new ways of relating to oneself and others. These approaches are delivered in a pragmatic, skills-focused way to support emotional regulation and relationship functioning.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to understand their goals, preferences and practical needs, and will adapt methods as therapy progresses so that the chosen techniques fit the individual and the issues they want to address.

Online therapy with Amanda is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and greater access to care. These options make it easier to fit therapy around busy schedules, to continue work during life transitions, and to choose the mode of communication that feels most comfortable for the client, while still enabling meaningful, evidence-based therapeutic work with a registered professional.