About Sam
Sam Pitt offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or big life changes. She is experienced in LGBTQ issues, trauma, relationship troubles and problems with addiction. Her manner is down-to-earth and steady, aimed at making early conversations feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Sam draws on seven years of therapeutic practice alongside long experience in frontline healthcare. That background shapes a steady, organised way of working when feelings are intense or memories are distressing.
How Sam works
Sessions focus on building trust and finding small, achievable steps forward. Her approach adapts to each person. Some work uses attachment ideas to make sense of relationship difficulties and patterns from early life.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps with managing anxiety and mood by learning practical strategies and noticing unhelpful thinking. Sam also uses client-centred and narrative ideas to help people tell their story and decide what matters next. She pays attention to safety and to pacing, especially when trauma or abuse are part of the story.
Conversations move at a pace the client can tolerate, with regular review of what is or is not helpful. Practical coping tools are offered alongside opportunities to reflect. Sessions are delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Sam works with English-speaking clients in the United Kingdom and draws on her varied experience to offer approachable, focused support for people who want clearer thinking and steadier days.
Sam lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when people keep repeating the same trust or closeness problems in their relationships and want clearer ways to feel safer with others.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping you find your own direction. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, accepting space to make sense of difficult feelings and to choose next steps.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and teaches practical strategies to manage anxiety and low mood. It suits people who want concrete tools to cope with day-to-day symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sam will discuss options with each person and choose methods together based on needs, goals and personal preference. That collaborative decision-making helps keep sessions relevant and responsive.
Online therapy offers flexibility across different formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, while live chat or text messaging work well for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, care duties or travel.
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