Amanda Rockall

Please contact me for availability.  I do work evenings and weekends where possible.

Hello, I’m Amanda and my pronouns are she/her.

I am a qualified person-centered counsellor. This means my work is client led and can sometimes call for an integrated approach to meet with the client’s individual needs.

My approach is fundamentally about understanding the clients unique experience through their eyes by listening and walking alongside them in their counselling journey. The client will experience a genuine and judgement free therapeutic relationship which allows for the support and understanding of anything the client brings.

In addition to my private practice, I volunteer with a local charity providing free counselling services to the community.

My practice is neurodiversity and LGBTQIA+ affirming.

I offer on-line and in-person sessions where the term is considered in a free pre-therapy telephone conversation. This helps support the client’s sense of safety and allows them to gage if they wish to start counselling with me.

I am committed to meeting the client’s needs and supporting them mentally, emotionally and sensory. I feel the client’s sense of safety is the foundation to collaboratively achieving the best counselling experience and outcomes. 

I have experience in supporting children and adults with neurodiversity and understand how regulation is key to functioning. I consider therapy in line with sensory integration to support dysregulation and teach clients, parents and carers how to integrate regulation as part of self-care and truly believe this approach enables all to understand and communicate their own needs and wants, which empowers the client to self-advocate.

I can work creatively across all age ranges by integrating mediums that the client finds helpful such as art, music, sand play and sensory integration.  

The free 30 minute pre-therapy telephone conversation is an important opportunity for clients to ask questions to help understand and alleviate fears & unknowns. It’s a good time to gage if working together feels right. If we decide to start counselling sessions a date and time for the first session will be agreed. The first session will be for agreeing on a working contract collaboratively and will include information on my privacy, safeguarding & regulatory policies to assure my commitment to ethics, values and putting the client first.

Moving forward sessions will cover matters brought by the client.