Amanda Cooper, NCPS

Amanda Cooper, NCPS, offers help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy difficulties, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD and low self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, anger, career changes, compassion fatigue and major life transitions. Amanda aims to make therapy a hopeful and practical process where people feel heard and can start to change patterns that cause pain.

She has worked full time as a psychotherapist for over a decade and has led short-term residential wellbeing services in Warwickshire. In those roles she provided therapy, supervised teams of therapists and helped design psychological programmes. Amanda tends to see surface problems such as problematic alcohol use or relationship conflict as signs of deeper trauma or environmental issues, and she looks beneath symptoms to find the source.

Her background includes an MSc (with Merit) in Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck, a BSc (Hons) First Class in Psychology from Arden University and a Diploma (with Merit) in Psychotherapy from the Human Givens Institute. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Ethics, Justice and Memory from Harvard University and is a Registered Qualified Test User with the British Psychological Society.

Amanda is an Accredited Counsellor Member of the National Counselling Society and holds other professional affiliations. She has practised clinical work in residential settings and has developed new therapeutic approaches within those programmes.

In sessions she adapts her style to each person, aiming for rapid, practical progress. She uses narrative work and memory-focused techniques among other evidence-informed methods and offers trauma recovery processes and support for phobias and fear responses.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Amanda uses narrative and memory-focused techniques to help people reframe unhelpful stories about themselves. Narrative work involves looking at life events as parts of a story and finding alternative meanings that reduce shame or self-blame. Memory-focused techniques help address traumatic memories and phobias by working carefully with what is recalled and how it feels.

She also applies trauma recovery processes that aim to reduce the hold of past events on current life and behaviour. These approaches can be useful for people struggling with repeated relationship patterns, addiction, anxiety or the lasting effects of abuse. The therapist adapts methods to what each person needs rather than using a single fixed programme.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together they will decide what to try first. This collaborative process can include checking how interventions feel and adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Please confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography refers to video, phone and message-based work but current options may vary. Online sessions can help fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time and make it easier to attend sessions during work breaks or while managing caregiving responsibilities. They also allow shorter check-ins when needed and let people choose how they connect based on comfort and practical needs.