About me

Hi, I'm Amie. I'm a BACP Registered Counsellor, author and the person behind Future Aims Therapy. I provide online counselling for adults and couples across the UK, supporting people through things like anxiety, trauma, bereavement, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, stress and those times when life just feels like too much. But I don't believe counselling is about someone telling you what you should do. You're the expert on your own life. My role is to listen, help you make sense of what's going on, ask the questions that might help you see things differently and work alongside you as you figure out what you want for yourself. A little about me I began my counselling journey at UCEN Manchester, where I started developing my skills and experience working with people from different backgrounds. I've worked with charities supporting people living with chronic illnesses and with a dedicated women's charity, experiences that shaped the way I think about mental health, people's circumstances and the importance of being properly heard. Since then, I've qualified in couples counselling, completed my BSc (Hons) in Therapeutic Counselling at Leeds Beckett University and undertaken further training in areas including trauma, safeguarding, suicide prevention, domestic abuse and other areas of mental health and counselling practice. I'm a big believer that mental health support should be accessible, understandable and useful in real life. That's one of the reasons Future Aims Therapy has grown beyond counselling. I've written The Little Book for Heavy Days, created practical mental-health resources that people can download and print at home, and created the Heavy Days Community for people who want regular mental-health resources and support delivered to their inbox. Not everyone needs therapy. Not everyone wants therapy. And sometimes you might need something different at different points in your life. I think you should get to choose what support looks like for you. And outside of counselling? I'm a mum, a big bookworm, a coffee enthusiast and a very big fan of dogs. I love being outdoors, particularly trees, woods, moors and anywhere I can escape into nature for a while. I'm also someone who knows that real life isn't particularly tidy. So while I'm a counsellor, I'm also a real person with a busy life, responsibilities, messy days and plenty of things I'm still figuring out myself. That's probably why I have very little interest in pretending that mental health can be sorted with a list of positive affirmations and a bubble bath. Future Aims Therapy is about finding support that actually fits real life.