About Sam
Sam Agnew is a counsellor who combines practical talking therapy with thoughtful, person-focused care. She uses a blend of approaches to help people manage phobias, anxiety, addiction and other concerns. Sam aims to make sessions straightforward and steady, so people can take small steps that feel doable.
She has a Bachelor-level credential with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings nine years of experience. That background includes helping people facing trauma, relationship strain, grief, chronic health challenges and neurodivergent needs such as ADHD and autism.
Background and approach
Sam lists a broad set of concerns she addresses, including stress, depression and intimacy-related issues. Sam works in a collaborative way, adapting conversations to what each person needs. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to offer practical skills.
Attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening shape how she builds trust in sessions. Her style is calm and respectful. She focuses on small, realistic changes rather than dramatic promises.
That can include learning coping skills, changing unhelpful thought patterns, or practising new ways of relating to others. People can work with Sam online by video, phone, chat or text messaging. The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and time is scheduled to suit both parties.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on personal values and committed action. It is useful for anxiety, phobias and stress when the goal is to live a fuller life despite uncomfortable emotions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The work often includes practical exercises and techniques to reduce avoidance and change unhelpful patterns, which can be helpful for phobias and panic-related problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships influence current ways of relating. It supports people who struggle with intimacy, trust or repeated relationship difficulties by mapping patterns and experimenting with new responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and how you respond to different ways of working, then adjust the plan as needed. That collaborative stance means techniques can be added or pared back over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face from another place. Phone sessions or chat can be easier when you need a shorter check-in or have limited bandwidth. Text-based messaging allows for ongoing reflection and quick messages between sessions. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel commitments while using the chosen approaches to address phobias and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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