Amanda Greenlees
Psychotherapist

Understanding change

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I have long been interested in what makes change possible, not just intellectually, but in practice.

Many people arrive in therapy with real insight into themselves. They understand their patterns, they can trace something of where they came from. What they haven’t been able to do is shift them and this is what I find most compelling about the work: that understanding something – often clearly – doesn’t always free us from it.

The patterns that shape how we relate, to others and to ourselves, are rarely just held in thought. They live in the body, in automatic responses, in the beliefs we formed early on about whether we’re loveable, whether others can be trusted, whether closeness is safe. It’s exploring these patterns – especially the ones we can’t yet see clearly – that creates the conditions for something to genuinely change.

My approach is embodied, relational, and active. I work with the whole person, not just the thinking mind.

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 bridge the gap between what you know in your head and what you actually feel and do.

My background

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I am a UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist with a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy and a Diploma in Art Therapy. I have built on that foundation through specialist training in relationship and couples work, including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), relational approaches (Dr. Alexandra Solomon), and an Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy at NAOS Institute (in progress).

My work is informed by attachment and relational perspectives, psychodynamic and existential thinking, and neuroscientific understandings of how change actually happens.

I have also undertaken specialist work in EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and I am currently training in Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic approach that works with the core beliefs and patterns formed through early relational experience and the ways these show up in the body and in present relationships.