About Sam
Sam Harris offers a calm, straightforward approach to counselling. He focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and trauma. Sam aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for anyone feeling overwhelmed.
Sam works from practices that help people talk through their problems and find workable strategies. He draws on client-centred therapy to follow a person’s lead and build a trusting space. He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behaviour changes.
How Sam works
In sessions Sam blends longer-term exploration with short-term goal work. That means looking at life patterns that keep causing pain while also trying practical steps that ease daily pressure. He has three years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Sam commonly helps people manage family problems, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, and the pressures of work and career. He also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, addiction concerns, eating or sleeping difficulties, and ADHD-related struggles. People can expect sessions that focus on clear, achievable steps and gentle reflection.
Sam uses a plain, non-judgemental style and works collaboratively to find what fits each person’s life. He encourages practical coping skills alongside time for understanding past experiences.
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What Sam works with
The areas below are the ones Sam selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and how online therapy works
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead, allowing people to talk through what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to sort their thoughts and emotions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small behaviour changes to reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful patterns in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging suits people who prefer writing. These options help people access therapy from different locations and at different times, while still working through practical strategies and emotional concerns.
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