About Samantha
Samantha Wilkinson uses straightforward, goal-focused therapy to help people facing stress, anxiety and big life changes. She combines practical tools with a calm, empathic style. Samantha is a BACP counsellor with six years of clinical experience working in the United Kingdom.
Samantha helps people who are dealing with grief, trauma and loss. She also supports those managing mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, as well as ADHD, addictions and low self-esteem.
How Samantha works
Her work includes issues around relationships, intimacy and career worries. Her approach mixes everyday, evidence-informed methods. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to focus on values and action.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to make sense of relationship patterns. Samantha has experience supporting neurodivergent people and is attentive to sensory and communication differences. Sessions are practical and paced to suit each person, with clear steps and skills to try between meetings.
She treats people with respect and aims to build on personal strengths. People can expect a collaborative process. Samantha listens first, then offers options that match a person’s goals.
She encourages small, manageable changes and talks through progress along the way. Her practice offers a range of online formats for flexible access. International clients may work with Samantha in English, and session length and focus are agreed at the start.
Samantha lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Samantha uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as core tools in her online practice. CBT helps people recognise and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with practical exercises and clear steps. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on what matters to the person, encouraging small actions that fit their values while learning to sit with difficult feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Samantha treats planning therapy as a collaboration - she will listen to a person's story, discuss options and adapt methods to suit needs and preferences. This means techniques can be mixed and adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication styles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can suit shorter check-ins, people who prefer writing, or those fitting therapy into a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with.
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