About Samantha
Samantha Walding is a counsellor with two decades of experience supporting people through anxiety and everyday pressures. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at someone who may be feeling unsure about starting therapy.
Samantha thinks clients know their own stories and brings that knowledge into sessions. She uses listening and questions to help people spot strengths and build new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to the person, with an emphasis on understanding patterns that keep problems going. Her background spans work with relationship difficulties, family tensions, grief and loss, and issues around addiction. She also addresses self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns and the emotional fallout from separation or betrayal.
That variety means she often draws on different ways of working to match the concern presented. In practice Samantha uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. She pairs that with client-centred listening to keep the client’s priorities central.
When appropriate she brings in psychodynamic thinking to notice repeated patterns and solution-focused steps to set small, achievable goals. Sessions are offered in English and she sees clients across the United Kingdom and internationally. Her registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to therapist availability.
How Samantha’s approaches work online
Samantha commonly uses attachment-based thinking and client-centred counselling in her online work. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape present reactions and can help with anxiety, trust issues and patterns in relationships. Client-centred counselling focuses on the person’s own priorities and uses empathetic listening to help people find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what feels most useful and any previous experience of therapy. Together you will try methods and adjust them so the sessions fit your needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, reflective notes between sessions or when writing helps you organise thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family life or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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