Mrs Amanda Rafferty

Member Status: Accredited

Member No: NCS15-01965

Location: BELFAST

I will provide a confidential, non-judgemental and safe space for you to share whatever is troubling you. I specialise in working with adults who have experienced difficult childhoods. I specialise in menopause transition. Together we will endeavour to make a positive and lasting change.

• Qualifications & Experience

  I have a Diploma in integrative counselling, a higher Diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling and I am a qualified EMDR practitioner. I have an OCN level 3 in substance misuse. I am a registered member of BACP and I am NCS accredited. I have a broad educational and multi-disciplinary professional background.
• What I can help with

  • Abortion
  • Abuse – Emotional, Physical, Sexual
  • Addiction (e.g. Alcohol, Computer games, Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex, Smoking)
  • Adoption
  • Ageing and related issues
  • AIDS / HIV
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Assertiveness / Self-confidence / Self-esteem
  • Bereavement / Loss
  • Bullying
  • Cancer
  • Carers
  • Cultural issues
  • Depression
  • Disability
  • Divorce & Separation
  • Eating disorders
  • Family
  • Financial difficulties
  • Gender identity
  • Generally unhappy with your life
  • Illness and dying
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Parenting skills
  • Phobias
  • Post-traumatic stress (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy related issues
  • Relationships
  • Self-harm
  • Sexuality Identity
  • Shyness / Social Phobia
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal feelings
  • Trauma
  • Violence / Victim support
  • Emotional issues
  • Panic attacks
  • Phobias: dentists
  • Phobias: flying
  • Phobias: heights
  • Phobias: spiders
  • Relaxation
  • Self esteem
  • Self-defeating behaviours
  • Shyness
  • Stress
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome / m.e.
  • Ptsd
  • Childbirth: labour
  • Childbirth: fertility
  • Childbirth: pregnancy
• Languages Spoken

  • English