Amanda Salvara

Amanda Salvara is a counsellor who has spent five years supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and life changes. She holds BACP membership and has worked with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her style is compassionate and down-to-earth, aiming to make the first step less daunting for anyone who is worried or unsure where to begin.

Amanda uses a flexible, integrative approach that adapts to each person's needs. Early sessions focus on where someone is now and where they want to get to. She helps identify thought and behaviour patterns that might be holding a person back and looks at what is working well alongside what needs to change.

Conversations are collaborative and curiosity-led. Amanda pays attention to how internal feelings and external circumstances interact. She encourages practical steps and small experiments between sessions to test new ways of coping and relating.

Common topics she supports include self-esteem, relationship concerns, body image, grief around life transitions, and the aftermath of abuse or trauma. Amanda also works with issues such as guilt, shame, isolation, midlife re-evaluation, money worries and multicultural concerns.

Sessions aim to build skills for managing mood and stress while connecting what feels important to a person's daily life. People who want calm, practical support to change patterns or to recover after difficult events may find her approach useful.

How Amanda's approaches can work online

Amanda draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take action that fits their values. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood while they find their own solutions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda discusses the different methods and tests what fits best for each person's goals and preferences, adjusting as progress or needs change. That collaborative process helps keep therapy relevant and practical.

If you are considering online therapy, check the available session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also can make it simpler to see a therapist who has experience with multicultural concerns or trauma without needing to change location. Talk with the therapist about what will help sessions fit your everyday life, such as timing, length and whether you prefer face-to-face video or other options when they are offered.