Amanda Perl

Accredited, in practice 14 years: addictions, alcohol, anxiety, paranoia, GAD, depression, bereavement, trauma, PTSD, OCD, phobias, anger, eating disorders: obesity, bulimia and anorexia, body dysmorphia, personality disorders, substance misuse, compulsive lying, codependency [taking too much responsibility for the actions or well-being of others or sometimes feeling as if too many people depend on you], emotional, physical and sexual abuse, affairs and betrayals, sex and porn, internet, gambling and gaming in addition to parent, couple dynamics and relationship issues, anyone caught up in a cycle of emotional abuse, and the challenges facing adult children of alcoholics. 

I offer you a safe space to share and explore present and past experiences, express thoughts and feelings gaining personal awareness, enjoy a better quality of life, robust mental health, improved well-being and positive relationships with friends, parents, siblings, children and work.

“Life begins on the other side of despair” Jean-Paul Sartre.

I believe each of us is unique with the potential for growth and development and can move forward in our own way. Your motivation to change and our client therapist relationship provides a space for healing.

I am a humanistic-existential pscyhotherapist integrating interventions including cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT], schema therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy [DBT], transactional analysis [TA], psychodynamic, person-centred, gestalt, transpersonal and mindfulness based approaches. 

Offering a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can share and explore present and past experiences, express thoughts and feelings gaining personal awareness, enjoy a better quality of life, robust mental health, improved well-being and positive relationships with friends, parents, siblings, children and work.

“Life begins on the other side of despair" Jean-Paul Sartre.

I believe each of us is unique with the potential for growth and development in order to become assertive and move forward in our own way. Your motivation to change and our client-therapist relationship provides the relational space for healing.

How do I begin therapy?

If you wish to begin therapy, the first courageous step is to make contact and arrange a time that we can talk through your concerns. This one hour "Assessment Appointment" is a starting point for the process. Assessment is not clinical in the same way as attending a GP or hospital, neither is it interrogative, intrusive or invasive. 

The space provided is simply to understand your history leading up to choosing to seek help and provides a platform for us to decide how best we might work together going forwards. We will cover confidentiality [NB Notes are not stored online. Notes are handwritten, stored and securely archived] and you will receive a clear overview of the options available discovering and clarifying the therapeutic process. 

If we choose to continue, review takes place approximately every six weeks.

Working with student and qualified counsellors, therapists, coaches, groups and professionals within the BACP Ethical Framework safely facilitating the supervisee journey in a variety of settings. 

Former dual roles include Course Lead, 6 years on a BACP Gold Standard Accredited Diploma, University Lecturer in Counselling and Forensic Psychology. See website for full CV highlighting further experience of working in different settings and organisations.

Clinical Supervision training at the British Psychological Society. Models encompass Proctor to Hawkins, Shohet and Kadushin utilising didactic and solution focused approaches

Supervision is focused on meeting your needs, balancing both informal and formal elements in supervision. The model structure can therefore be viewed as

Normative Formative Restorative

Qualitative Developmental Resourcing

Managerial Educational Supportive

Additionally, consultancy and mentoring available online via Zoom, Skype and face-to-face

Existential-Humanistic integrating a number of orientations and interventions including psychodynamic, gestalt, TA, CBT, DBT schema therapy and mindfulness based approaches. See website for a more complete description.

Free 30 minute consultation for potential supervisees