Amanda Cooper, NCPS

Amanda Cooper is a psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with 13 years of clinical experience. She has spent much of her career leading short-term residential wellbeing services in Warwickshire, supervising teams of therapists and directing psychological programme development. That work means she routinely manages complex presentations and looks beneath surface behaviours - for example problematic alcohol use or relationship conflict - to identify underlying trauma or environmental factors that are driving difficulties.

Amanda works with a broad range of issues including trauma, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, addictions, family problems, ADHD, sleep difficulties, anger, career challenges, depression and coping with life changes. She also focuses on areas such as BDSM and kink, blended family dynamics, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication and commitment issues, domestic violence, fertility concerns and substance misuse. In clinical practice she aims to address patterns of being stuck and to support personal development, career transitions and practical life change.

Her therapeutic style is proactive and goal-oriented while remaining non-judgemental and approachable. She aims for work that is positive, uplifting and transformative and often seeks to produce meaningful progress early in therapy. Amanda commonly exchanges messages with people before an initial session to make the best use of live time, and she offers flexible delivery including video, phone and message-based work.

Amanda's formal training spans graduate and post-graduate study with specialisms in anxiety, panic, fear, relationships and intimacy, plus additional training in memory, metaphor and narrative techniques used to reframe negative thinking. Her clinically specific qualifications include an MSc (with Merit) in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London - a postgraduate degree focused on psychology in organisations - a BSc (Hons) (First Class) in Psychology from Arden University - an undergraduate honours degree in psychology - and a Diploma (with Merit) in Psychotherapy from the Human Givens Institute - a professional diploma in therapeutic practice. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Ethics, Justice, and Memory from Harvard University and the RQTU (Qualified Test User) BPS credential for psychometric testing.

Professional memberships and accreditations in her background include accredited membership of the National Counselling Society, ACC accredited counsellor membership, the British Psychological Society Graduate Basis for Membership (MBPsS) and international affiliate status with the American Psychological Association. She is an alumna of the Transformative Technology Academy associated with Stanford University faculty, and has pioneered new technological approaches within residential clinical programmes. Amanda has also been progressing further study, including an MBA and planned doctoral research at Birkbeck scheduled to commence in January 23.