Amanda Birkbeck Psychotherapist

Amanda is a trauma-informed Art Psychotherapist with a passion for healing trauma, building community, fostering connection, and rediscovering authenticity and creativity. She uses art-making to facilitate holistic, client-centered healing through a safe, welcoming, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship and gentle psychotherapy. Offering in-person and online sessions tailored to individuals' unique needs, with a focus on positive psychology, Somatic EMDR, narrative therapy, and DBT. Amanda specialises in working with neurodiversity, trauma, the LGBTQIA+ community, women's issues, life transitions, maternity, parenting, anxiety, and depression. She has several years' experience working with young people and adults, and completed a bachelors of English Language and Literature at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, a certificate and diploma from the College for Educational and Clinical Art Therapy (CECAT), and a masters degree in Art Therapy from Western Sydney University. She is a Marsha Linehan certified DBT skills practitioner and a professional member of the Australian, New Zealand, and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT).