How are accounts and claims justified and constructed to shape perception, especially under pressure, scrutiny, or conflict?
Whether interpersonal, organisational, adversarial or public-facing, I examine and deconstruct the credibility of any narrative.
Whether navigating complex interpersonal dynamics, evaluating what is unfolding across public platforms, or assessing potential threats from outside an organisation, sound decisions depend on clear judgment and disciplined discernment.
I work as a forensic behavioural analyst with a background in clinical psychotherapy, specialising in credibility assessment, deception recognition, and the early identification of aggression, manipulation, and coercive influence.
My work examines how people reason, what they omit, where confidence substitutes for evidence, and how narratives fracture under pressure.
My Master’s research focused on manipulative reasoning and resistance to influence. This work underpins my approach: identifying not only when something is false or misleading, but how it is being made to appear coherent, credible, or justified.
Most failures of judgment do not occur because information is unavailable. They occur because reasoning goes unexamined.
People and organisations often inherit narratives about events, motives, risks, or intentions, and act on them without testing whether those narratives are internally consistent, evidence-based, or resilient to challenge. Under scrutiny, these weaknesses surface quickly.
I work to locate those fault lines early, objectively, for any purpose.
Specialist one-on-one and professional support
Continuing professional development and tailored workshops.
If you’re ready to get started now, book a 60-minute strategic consultation. In this one-to-one session, we go straight to the heart of your situation, whether it’s a credibility concern, a difficult decision, or a potential threat you need clarity on.
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Amanda has spent more than twenty years working across health, mental health, and community services in both public and private sectors, operating in environments where judgement, behaviour, and risk are tested daily rather than hypothetically. This work has involved sustained exposure to complex decision-making, conflict, manipulation, escalation, and situations where error carries real consequences.
This frontline experience informs how Amanda analyses behaviour, credibility, and risk in practice. Rather than treating these as abstract concepts, her work examines how reasoning fails, how narratives are constructed and defended, and how human pressure points are exploited under real-world conditions, by individuals, groups, or external actors.
She brings this applied experience together with advanced forensic training, including a Master of Science (with Distinction) in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis. Her work focuses on credibility assessment, manipulative communication, behavioural threat recognition, and resistance to influence, with particular attention to how flawed reasoning and unexamined assumptions harden into defensible-looking but fragile positions.
Amanda is a co-author of the Organisational Risk Culture Standards (ORCS), contributing to the development of frameworks that address how narrative, ethics, perception, and organisational behaviour interact to shape decision-making and risk exposure. This work anchors her approach at a systems level, linking individual behaviour to organisational outcomes, defensibility, and failure under scrutiny.