Amber Bates

Monday: afternoon and evening sessions

Tuesday: daytime sessions

Thursday: Daytime and evening sessions

Friday: daytime sessions

I offer in person and online sessions for individuals, couples and groups in Pembrokeshire, Wales. I am a qualified counsellor and trainee psychotherapist in clinical practice working creatively with a Transactional Analysis framework.

Modern life is fast paced and the systems we exist within are very demanding. Trying to keep up with the pressures we feel in our everyday lives can leave us feeling isolated, overwhelmed and like we are living in survival mode. You don’t have to do it alone. I offer warm, empathic, non judgmental support, where together, we can turn down the volume on the outer world, explore who you are and how you truly want to be living.

Together we can explore how painful thoughts, feelings and repeating patterns of behaviour you are experiencing might have their roots in the past and the ways you learned to adapt and make sense of relationships and your environment as a child. These outdated patterns are often operating outside of our awareness though you may recognise a sense of familiar outcome or repeated painful experiences. With time and care it is possible to move beyond these old ways of being.

Areas I can offer support:

Healing from trauma

Life transitions: young people transitioning to adulthood, pregnancy and birth, parenthood, peri/menopause, divorce, children leaving home, gender transition, job or income loss, relationships ending, life changing illness or surgery, living with changes in physical ability

Menstrual Cycle Awareness: how the hormonal phases of the menstrual cycle can impact the way we feel about ourselves, our relationships and being in the world. This can be very supportive when working with PMDD or gender dysphoria.

Anxiety

Depression

Feeling stuck / overwhelmed

Cycles of difficult painful feelings, negative and limiting thinking or repetitive harmful, disruptive or sabotaging behaviours

Feeling unfulfilled, lacking in purpose

I offer 1:1 or online sessions from a lovely warm, private therapy space in Letterston, Pembrokeshire. 

Individual sessions are £50 for 1 hour. 

Couples sessions are £70 for 90 minutes.

I also run therapy groups, menopause groups and menstrual cycle awareness groups. 

I am happy to answer your enquiries via email or a free 20-minute phone consultation which allows us both to ask questions. You can share with me what issues you would like to bring to therapy. I will gather some brief information and answer any questions you have about how I work.

To book your initial free 20-min session please text rather than ring on 07935 664648 or email kinstara@gmail.com and I will endeavour to reply within 48 hours.

 I have regular high quality supervision to support my work and am registered with UKATA, EATA and BACP. I follow their code of ethics and professional practice.