Psychotherapist and Coach
Therapy that goes somewhere.
You might understand exactly why you feel the way you do. You might have talked about it at length. And yet something hasn’t moved.
That’s not a failure of insight – understanding something and being able to change it are often two very different things.
I’m Amanda Greenlees, a psychotherapist specialising in trauma, relationships, and the patterns that keep us stuck. I work online with adults who are ready to do something more than talk.
What makes this different
Most of us know what we want to change. The harder question is why we can’t — and that’s rarely answered by insight alone.
I work with your whole experience: not just your thoughts and story, but what’s happening in your body, your nervous system, and the ways you relate to yourself and others. This is active, engaged therapy. I won’t just listen and nod. I’ll work with you closely, curiously, and with real skill to help you understand what’s happening and begin to shift it.
What we might work on
Many of my clients come to me with one or more of the following:
- Trauma and its aftermath – including complex or developmental trauma that therapy hasn’t quite touched before
- Relationships – with others and with yourself; the patterns that repeat, the closeness that feels unsafe, the self-criticism that won’t quieten
- Eating and the body – disordered relationships with food, body image, and self-worth
- A sense that something needs to change – even if you can’t quite name what
How I work
Understanding a pattern is a starting point, but it’s rarely enough on its own. Most people I work with already have a lot of insight. What they’re missing is the bridge between what they know in their head and what they actually feel and do.
My approach works on both levels at once. We’ll think together about what’s happening – the patterns, the history, the meaning you’ve made of things – and at the same time pay close attention to what’s happening in your body as we do that. Often it’s the moment those two things connect that something genuinely shifts.
I draw on EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Hakomi, approaches that work with the nervous system and the body alongside the thinking mind, not instead of it.
All of this work happens online. Working with the body doesn’t require us to be in the same room — it requires you to be in your body, and we can work with that wherever you are. Many clients find that being in their own environment actually supports this kind of work.
I am an accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and a registered EMDR practitioner.
Ready to find out more?
If this sounds like the kind of work you’re looking for, the first step is a consultation session. No obligation, just a chance to see if working together feels right.