Amanda Critchley

I am available on a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday currently, please contact me for available timings. 

Hello and thank you for taking this step. I’m Amanda (She/her) welcome. Life can be hard sometimes. Are you experiencing feelings of anxiety, anger, or sadness? Perhaps you often feel overwhelmed, unfulfilled, or unhappy with your current situation? Have you encountered a significant life event that you are struggling to adapt to? Are your relationships facing challenges, at home with family, or in the workplace? Are past experiences continuing to affect your present well-being?

As a psychodynamic counsellor, I offer a warm, empathetic, and confidential space where you can begin to explore your thoughts and feelings, make sense of your past experiences, and find a way forward.

I have a personal understanding of the unique challenges both LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse people face. I recognise the influence of family and society, the impact on self-esteem through discrimination, exclusion, and personal rejection. How hostility can cause/contribute to internalised stigma and shame.

I work with awareness and respect for difference and diversity and welcome enquiries from people with health conditions and impairments; creating a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels respected and valued.

Whatever challenges you face, you don’t have to face them alone.

Practice description

Counselling offers space to explore your experiences, to understand difficult and painful feelings. Somewhere new ways of doing and being can be discovered.

I offer a non-judgemental, calm, collaborative, compassionate and safe therapeutic space.

I follow the BACP Ethical Framework and work in accordance with the standards of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

I offer an assessment session for new clients, online at a reduced rate of £50 that lasts 50 minutes. Then you can decide if you would like to come and see me in my therapy room and have face to face sessions or continue with online sessions.