Welcome. My name is Amanda Perl, Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists, CBT, DBT Practitioner, Supervisor and Advanced Practitioner with Addiction Professionals. In addition to private clients, I provide clinical services to BUPA, AXA PPP, Aviva and Cigna healthcare insurance providers. Call or text +44 (0)7976 545775 email [email protected] or click here.
My Practice is located in Leigh-on-Sea. I also offer online sessions via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime and WhatsApp. However, there are individuals who may be more suited to face-to-face sessions only. Click here for fee details
What do you need from therapy?
Helping you with anxiety, paranoid anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, stress, work-related stress, redundancy, bereavement, trauma, PTSD, OCD, phobias, anger management, personality disorders, eating disorders including obesity, bulimia and anorexia, body dysmorphia, physical and sexual abuse, sexuality, addiction(s) including substance misuse, alcohol, compulsive lying, codependency, affairs and betrayals, sex and porn, internet, gambling and gaming in addition to parent, couple and relationship issues specialising in individuals or couples caught up in a cycle of emotional abuse.
Are you feeling lost, sad or lonely? Jealous, fearful, guilty or ashamed? Stressed from work or lack of work? Are you missing opportunities, failing at business? Worrying about money, bills, redundancy? Anxious, critical, unkind and angry losing your temper with yourself or loved ones? Lying compulsively? Do relationships feel tricky? Stress unmanageable? Perhaps you lack assertiveness yet control others whilst secretly gambling, spending, drinking or using cocaine? Do you feel preoccupied with eating or Not eating. Obsessed with image, perfectionism and self-monitoring? Is it difficult to start the day? Does it feel easier to numb painful emotions from bereavement or loss? Do you take too much responsibility for the actions or well-being of others? On the other hand, you may sometimes feel as if too many people depend upon you? Are you disconnected from your feelings? Cemented in isolation and drawn into escapism? Or on the other hand are you and your loved one stuck in rows, conflict and unhappiness?
Offering a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can share and explore present and past experiences, express thoughts and feelings gaining personal awareness, enjoy a better quality of life, robust mental health, improved well-being and positive relationships with friends, parents, siblings, children and work.
“Life begins on the other side of despair” Jean-Paul Sartre.
I believe each of us is unique with the potential for growth and development and can move forward in our own way. Your motivation to change and our client-therapist relationship provides a space for healing.
Qualifications
- MSc Psychology
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- Advanced (Integrative) Diploma in Counselling
- Certificate in Clinical Supervision, British Psychological Society
- Group Psychotherapy
- Couple Therapy
- Work Related Stress (Interview Metro on How to Help a CoWorker with Depression)
- Eating Disorders & Nutrition (Interview Happiful Magazine on Eating Disorder Stereotypes)
- Fitness Trackers and Eating Disorders (Interview Tech Radar)
- CBT for Depression
- Managing Depression (Interview Metro)
- Relationship Breakups Depression (Interview Metro)
- Anxiety Integrated Approach (Interview Grazia on unusual stress and anxiety symptoms)
- Anger Management
- Assertiveness
- Emotional Abuse (Interview BBC Trending)
- Bereavement
- Trauma (Resilience, Secondary Trauma and Post-Trauma Growth)
- Mindfulness
- Mindset (sports psychology)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Personality Disorders
- Managing Exam Results stress and anxiety [teenagers] (Interview Prima Magazine)
- University Student Issues (Interview Study International)
- Schema Therapy
- Gender and Sexuality
- Addictive Thinking, Drugs & Alcohol, Gambling, Internet, Gaming, Porn,
- Intuitive Recovery
- Equality and Diversity
- Prejudice, racism, antisemitism and discrimination
- Change Management
- Discourse Analysis
- Life Coaching
Additional Roles
Supervisor. CPD Trainer.
Former University Lecturer, Forensic Psychology and Counselling. Course Lead and Tutor Stage 4 BACP Accredited Gold Standard Counselling Diploma, Clinical Lead, Team leader, Group Facilitator, Domestic Violence Lead, Trainer, Developer and Lead on Transtheoretical and Structured Day care programmes. Substance Misuse and Alchohol Recovery Service Programmes provided for London Boroughs. Outpatient Department delivering long-term Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychotherapy & Art Psychotherapy. Focus on Personality Disorders including Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Histrionic and Obsessive. Jointly commissioned third sector Charity/NHS and Dual Diagnosis Service e.g., bipolar, schizophrenia. Training in therapeutic relationship, group dynamics, facilitation and interventions including harm reduction delivered to Probation and associated Offender Services within the Criminal Justice System.
Therapeutic Orientation
My philosophy is Humanistic-Existential and Person-Centred. Integrating interventions that best suit you including Transactional Analysis, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), recommended under the NICE Guidelines, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic, Systemic, Transpersonal and Gestalt alongside Mindfulness.
“Existential therapists do not pamper their clients” Emmy Van Deurzen
The role of the existential psychotherapist is to help the client focus on personal responsibility for making decisions.
Additional Services
Alongside clinical work I also offer coaching, management training, supervision and continuing professional development (“CPD”) workshops in a variety of interventions and specialist interest topics including attachment in relationships, trauma, memory, alcohol and substance misuse, anxiety, anger, personality disorders and disordered eating.
Registered / Accredited
Call or text +44 (0)7976 545775 email [email protected] or click here.