Polly Amies, BACP

Polly Amies is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with a BACP accreditation. She brings decades of experience supporting adults, young people and family members across a range of settings. Polly describes her style as warm, dynamic and caring, and she aims to adapt sessions to each person’s needs. She asks clients to see themselves as the experts in their own lives and to build on their existing strengths.

Over a long career Polly has helped with stress, anxiety and depression. She has also supported people dealing with relationship problems, trauma and grief. Her practice includes work around neurodiversity, parenting pressures, addiction and burnout from caregiving.

Polly uses humanistic, client-focused ways of working alongside techniques that draw on cognitive and solution-focused approaches. She blends these to suit what feels most helpful in the session and to support practical steps forward. Sessions tend to emphasise clear goals, short-term coping strategies and strengthening emotional understanding.

Polly highlights compassion and respect in how she meets people. She focuses on listening first, then helping to clarify what needs to change or be managed. Clients often leave with concrete ideas to try between sessions and a clearer sense of next steps.

She accepts international clients and runs her practice under BACP standards. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Polly uses therapy approaches online

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens, reflects and helps people explore what matters most to them, which suits concerns like bereavement, relationship strain and ageing questions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing small changes. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life transitions.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Polly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working. Together they review what helps and change direction if needed, so the plan fits the client rather than the other way around.

The original profile does not specify session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Online work also makes it straightforward to maintain continuity of care if someone moves or travels internationally. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists can adapt tools from client-centred and CBT work to an online setting to keep sessions practical and focused on real-life steps.