About Samantha
Samantha Lawson is a counsellor who trained in the United Kingdom and has four years of professional experience. She has worked extensively with people facing addiction, low mood, confidence issues, relationship difficulties and life transitions. Samantha uses her time in practice to offer steady, practical support rather than quick fixes.
Her background includes a year-long placement of over 100 hours and more than 1,000 live sessions delivered during online practice.
How Samantha works
She draws on several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to each person’s needs. That means sessions can include practical steps, reflective conversation, or exercises that suit how someone prefers to work. Samantha’s style is collaborative and matter-of-fact.
She encourages people to notice their strengths and small changes that add up. Conversations tend to focus on what can help now, and on building habits that support longer-term wellbeing. Areas she commonly supports include trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, career stress and compassion fatigue.
She also works with issues such as body image, codependency, communication difficulties and coping after separation. Sessions aim to be paced to the individual. Samantha will listen first, then suggest practical techniques from approaches like cognitive behavioural methods or mindfulness if these seem helpful.
Samantha lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Samantha works with
The areas below are the ones Samantha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Samantha commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when working with online clients. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that fit their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going, and uses simple experiments and tasks to shift those patterns over time. Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will listen to what matters to you, discuss different ways of working, and agree on techniques that fit your goals and pace. That collaborative choice can be revisited as therapy progresses. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a work break, while live chat or messaging suit brief check-ins and people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions when helpful.Start online instead of waiting
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