Amanda Chapman

I offer sessions Monday to Friday, daytime and early evening. 

I am an accredited Integrative Psychotherapist at Master's level delivering therapy to adults. I offer face to face sessions. Together we build your skills and understanding based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Attachment Theory, all pinned within a Person-Centred approach. Sessions take place within a dedicated and privately accessed therapy room that is welcoming and secure, where I professionally and compassionately guide your exploration of your unique lived experiences you bring to your sessions. Your space. Your time. This is done using a range of resources to look into your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. This offers you individual insight, greater understanding and personal empowerment. This is all underpinned by theoretical models, all set within an ethical process, linked to Stages of Change. Provided with this individual approach, client’s leave with a holistic understanding of themselves, others, and their world; informed insight at this level helps maintain positive and lasting change. Drawing on this integration of theories, means client’s are better able to access the counselling that suits them and their needs. I’ve worked in education since the late ’80s and whilst transitioning to this profession, I was Early Years Behaviour Consultant for Derby City Council for 10 yrs. As a qualified psychotherapist of 12 yrs, I have worked in both the charity sector and private practice, supporting a wide-range of clientele. Be that age, gender, sexuality, culture, economic status or faith. If you seek personal therapy and want to "get started", text or email me to set up a brief phone chat before deciding to step into your first session.

Integrative Therapy draws on three therapeutic approaches. In my case Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Attachment Theory and Person-Centred (PC). In crude terms CBT seeks to uncover your Core Beliefs and Rules for Living whilst talking about the interplay of current and past thoughts, feeling and behaviours linked to key events and perceptions. Attachment looks at your early life experiences and interactions linked to key adults and how that created an understanding of the world around you at an early stage of development and how that speaks to you now in your relationship with yourself and others. PC places you at the centre of the therapy meaning you are given a regular and boundaries space to talk your truth because it feels safe, non-judgmental, honest, warm, and empathic.     

Before your first session, you will be emailed the Therapy Contract. This document sets out what will become the mutually agreed boundaries and conditions of the therapy on offer, alongside a confidentiality and safeguarding agreement. This contract is discussed as part of the initial session to ensure understanding and to answer any further queries and is often a path into our therapeutic chat. If you feel comfortable talking about what has brought you to therapy, then you are given the space to do that. If that does not fit with you then a gentle exercise is provided to facilitate 'opening-up. Looking at goals and expectations of therapy will also be explored together in this session in an organic way. All sessions are evaluated and used to inform the therapy. My aim is to enable the client to have a voice that is heard and thus respected in holding their value.