Amanda Hughes

Please note, I am currently only taking enquiries from adoption or fostering agencies for EMDR or therapeutic parenting work.

Please see availability section. 

I am a warm, sensitive, empathic and gently challenging Integrative Psychotherapist. I offer therapy to individual adults, children and adolescents as well as parent coaching and DDP informed family therapy.  I accept referrals from fostering and adoption agencies.

I am an adult Integrative Body Psychotherapist and a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. I have British Psychological Society approved Practitioner Skills certificates for working with eating disorders. I have completed DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy - attachment focussed family therapy) training Levels 1 & 2. I am an EMDR therapist and have a Diploma in assessing and treating child trauma and dissociation. I am also IFS informed.

I am qualified and experienced to work with a wide range of issues, including anger, depression and anxiety, trauma and dissociation, self-harming,  identity/gender/sexuality including transgender, health issues, autistic spectrum and other neurodivergencies, and suicidal ideation.

As an integrative therapist, I tailor the therapy to you as an individual. I commit to working at your own pace and in a way that suits you. Open, ongoing feedback on how you are finding the therapy is an important part of the process. I am interested in bringing creativity, body awareness and movement, relaxation training and mindfulness into talk therapy - this is optional and always your choice.

My private practice is based at my peaceful home in Tadley, within easy reach of Basingstoke, Reading, Newbury, Winchester and surrounding areas of Hampshire and Berkshire.

To help you decide if I am the right person for you, I offer a free half hour phone consultation. This is a no obligation opportunity to get a sense of who I am and how I work. Following this you can book a first counselling session.