Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes welcomes people who find the first step toward counselling difficult or daunting and creates a calm, comfortable space for them to talk about what is troubling them.

Her approach is gentle and grounded in compassion and respect. She recognises that emotions can feel uncomfortable, overwhelming or painful and offers a non-judgement environment where each person’s experience is valued.

She regards counselling as a place for individuals to explore their thoughts, feelings and behaviours to bring about transformation and the changes they want to make. She respects personal boundaries and works at each person’s pace; clients lead the sessions and she does not tell them what to do while they share their experiences.

In addition to individual work, she provides couples counselling, helping partners repair trust, improve communication and strengthen emotional intimacy. She collaborates with both people to increase self-awareness and mutual understanding and to support better communication within the relationship.

Amanda works with a wide range of presenting issues including relationship difficulties, family problems, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, grief and bereavement, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and low self-confidence, addiction, trauma and PTSD, anger, career concerns, loneliness and burnout, as well as domestic abuse.