About Samantha
Samantha Salmon offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She meets clients where they are and focuses on simple, workable steps. Conversations aim to ease pressure and help people make clearer choices in daily life.
She has a BACP credential and twelve years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. Her background includes work in employee assistance programmes and many years supporting people affected by domestic abuse.
Background and approach
That experience informs how she approaches safety, boundaries and recovery after harm. Samantha uses straightforward methods drawn from client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness. Sessions tend to focus on what matters now and on small changes that add up over time.
She encourages practical strategies for panic, sleeplessness and persistent worry. Relationship concerns, grief and self-esteem are common topics she helps people talk through. She also supports people coping with chronic illness or pain, problems with communication, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife reassessment.
The aim is to restore functioning and hope, one step at a time. Samantha believes people are the experts in their own lives. Her role is to listen, reflect and offer gentle challenges that move things forward.
Her style is collaborative, patient and focused on achievable goals.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Samantha commonly uses client-centred work which means the conversation follows what matters to the person. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what she hears, and helps the client find their own answers. This approach is helpful for people needing emotional validation and clarity.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT. CBT looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, panic and persistent worry because it gives clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Samantha treats it as a collaboration. She will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as things progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations across distance, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats suit short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limitations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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