About Samantha
Samantha Ryan is a counsellor with ten years' experience who creates a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk through hard things. She uses a person-centred way of working and a trauma-informed outlook to respect each person's story and pace. Samantha focuses on helping people recover from trauma and rebuild trust in themselves.
She has particular experience supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse and domestic abuse, and she aims to help people find safety and a clearer sense of who they are beneath what they have been through.
How Samantha works
Her background includes four years at a charity supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a year working with people affected by cancer in a hospital setting, and a year at a women’s centre offering counselling for a wide range of issues. She also combines volunteer roles with independent practice work in England, where she has offered counselling and complementary therapies.
In sessions she listens with empathy and honesty. She helps people process heavy feelings and notices small shifts that show progress. Conversations are paced to the individual and focus on what matters most right now, whether that is healing from trauma, coping with anxiety, managing stress, or making sense of life changes.
People can expect a steady, supportive presence through hard moments and practical attention to goals when they are ready to work on them. Samantha works in English and accepts international clients for online sessions.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Samantha uses person-centred and trauma-focused work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own answers. In practice this means the counsellor reflects what someone says, checks understanding, and follows the person's lead to build trust and clarity. Trauma-Focused Therapy aims to help people process painful experiences and reduce their ongoing impact. It involves careful pacing, grounding techniques, and working through memories or reactions in ways chosen by the client.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Samantha will discuss options and adjust methods based on the person's goals, needs and preferences, making decisions collaboratively rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online sessions make this flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to join, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people write out thoughts between sessions. These formats help people access counselling from different locations and at times that suit them.
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