Amber Sexton, BACP

Counsellor Amber Sexton is BACP registered and has five years' experience working with relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, stress and anxiety. She practises in the United Kingdom and supports clients with a wide range of concerns including LGBT issues, intimacy and parenting strains, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career stress, and ADHD.

Amber uses a mix of approaches to help people make sense of what they are feeling. She listens, asks questions, and works at a pace the person is comfortable with. Sessions focus on building trust and on practical steps to cope better day to day.

Her background includes a BSc (Hons) in counselling and a Foundation Degree in Science Counselling. She has experience working in a community counselling centre and in a clinical setting for three years. Amber has completed further training in crisis safety planning and in approaches for working with shame and the body.

In practice she combines client-centred work with cognitive and behavioural methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused ways of looking at relationships. That mix can be useful for grief, trauma, low mood and difficulties with self-worth. Sessions typically look at patterns, practical coping strategies, and how past relationships affect present ones.

Amber encourages clear, honest conversation about goals and expectations. She helps people notice small changes they can make between sessions. People who prefer direct, conversational counselling that also addresses feelings about attachment and behaviour tend to find this approach helpful.

How Amber uses therapeutic approaches in online counselling