About Samantha
Samantha Searl is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and difficult life changes. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief and sleep or eating problems. Samantha works at a steady pace that suits each person and listens without judgement.
Her approach is practical and conversational. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on small steps that fit into daily life.
Background and approach
Samantha makes space for people to be heard and to explore what feels true for them. She uses client-centred ways of working that prioritise the person's own goals and experience. Samantha also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns from the past that affect the present.
Solution-focused tools are used to set clear, achievable goals during the work. Over five years she has worked with a range of concerns including depression, bipolar, ADHD, compassion fatigue and a broad set of relationship and identity issues such as LGBT matters and men's issues. Her additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, divorce and abandonment worries.
Samantha is registered with NCPS, which appears as her listed credential. She offers sessions in English and practises in the United Kingdom. People interested in starting are guided through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step.
How these approaches work online
Samantha commonly uses client-centred work and solution-focused approaches when delivering online therapy. Client-centred work means the session follows the person's priorities and feelings, giving them space to be heard and to set the agenda. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support or to clarify what matters to them.Solution-focused work concentrates on defining small, achievable goals and noticing progress. That can be helpful for anxiety, stress, sleep or eating issues because it breaks problems into manageable steps and builds momentum through quick wins. Samantha also draws on psychodynamic ideas to gently explore how past patterns may be influencing current difficulties when that seems relevant.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss options and make decisions together with the person based on needs, goals and preferences. It is a collaborative effort to try methods, see what fits and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or mobility limits. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can continue in ways that work for the individual's routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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