About Sam
Sam Cox is a counsellor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. He writes simply and listens closely to understand what is causing distress. Sessions move at a pace that suits each person and focus on building a strong working relationship between counsellor and client.
Sam has four years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as his credential. He trained in psychotherapy at The Mary Ward Centre and Kingston College, London.
Background and approach
His background includes work for the NHS and with organisations in criminal justice, housing, student wellbeing, primary care and addiction services. In sessions he draws on person-centred and psychodynamic ideas to help people talk through current problems and how past relationships shape feelings and behaviour.
Conversations look at patterns in relationships, recurring reactions, and what a person needs to feel more steady and in control. The aim is clearer understanding that supports practical change. Sam also works with people facing depression, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, bereavement, ADHD-related difficulties, anger, loneliness and issues around commitment and attachment.
He accepts international clients and runs sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different schedules. First meetings involve talking about the immediate concerns, relevant history and what the person hopes to get from therapy. Sam helps people set simple, realistic goals and then reviews progress together as therapy continues.
Approaches that transfer well to online therapy
Person-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping someone feel heard. In online sessions this looks like open conversation about what matters now and what the person needs to feel supported. It is useful for stress, anxiety and decision-making.Psychodynamic-informed work explores how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Through reflective conversation a person can spot repeating patterns and try new ways of relating that reduce distress. This approach can help with attachment issues, longstanding anxiety and grief.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sam will talk with the person about their goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working together. This is a collaborative process and he reviews what helps as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works with lower bandwidth, chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, study and family life while keeping regular contact with a therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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