Amie Coates, BACP

Amie Coates is a UK-based therapist with 17 years of professional experience working in private practice, schools, further education settings, and on contracts to support charities and their beneficiaries. She supports people facing stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, family breakdown and relationship difficulties, grief and loss, low motivation, and challenges with self-esteem and confidence. Her practice also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, control issues, separation and divorce, domestic violence, eating-related concerns, family problems, guilt and shame, life purpose and midlife transition, and money-related stress.

Trained in integrative counselling, Amie blends techniques from multiple models - including cognitive behavioural approaches, person-centred work, play and art-based methods, and psychodynamic ideas - to create a tailored plan for each client. She believes in treating people with sensitivity, respect, and compassion, and in recognising each person’s autonomy and potential. Amie adapts dialogue and therapeutic tasks to match individual needs, preferences, and goals, and focuses on practical, collaborative work to help clients move toward greater wellbeing.

Holding the BACP credential - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - she brings experienced, reflective practice to her client relationships and aims to support those ready to take the first courageous step toward change.

Therapeutic approaches for flexible online care

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, empathetic space where the client’s perspective guides the work - the therapist offers understanding and support while the client explores personal goals and values, which can be helpful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship difficulties. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, then develop practical strategies to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on emotions and attachment needs, helping people understand and reorganise emotional responses in relationships and following loss or trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Amie Coates works collaboratively with each person, considering their needs, goals, and preferences to decide which methods to use and how to adapt them for online sessions. This collaborative stance helps shape a personalised plan that can evolve over time.

Online therapy with Amie offers practical flexibility - sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family life, or geographic constraints. Working remotely also supports continuity of care for international clients and those with limited mobility, while allowing registered professionals to deliver consistent, focused therapeutic support.