Amie Coates, BACP

Amie Coates holds the BACP credential and is a therapist based in the United Kingdom with 17 years of professional experience. Her career has included work in private practice, schools, further education settings, and contracted roles supporting charities and their beneficiaries. She specialises in stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, and depression, and she also offers focused support for adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image, caregiver issues and stress, chronic pain, illness and disability, control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, eating and food-related issues, family problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, midlife crisis, and money and financial issues.

Trained in Integrative Counselling, Amie draws on client-centered principles alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to shape collaborative treatment plans. Her approach is tailored to each person’s needs, blending practical strategies with attention to emotions and relational patterns. She works with sensitivity, respect and compassion, emphasising each individual’s autonomy and potential for change.

Taking the first step toward improved wellbeing can be daunting, and Amie provides steady support through that process. She adapts sessions and therapeutic dialogue to the unique circumstances and goals of the people she works with, aiming to help them build resilience, clarity and more fulfilling ways of living.