About Sam
Sam Harris is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a client-centred way of working to help people through difficult times. He draws on three years of practice and a BACP registration to offer steady, practical support for worries like stress, anxiety, grief and depression. His sessions focus on listening first.
He helps people name feelings and think through what’s getting in the way of day-to-day life. Conversations are non-judgemental and paced to suit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sam also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thought patterns and develop coping skills for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Solution-focused methods are used when people want short-term, goal-oriented work to manage a specific issue such as parenting stress or workplace pressure.
For deeper themes, he draws on psychodynamic thinking to consider past patterns that affect current relationships, attachment and intimacy. Hypnotherapy may be offered as an adjunct for issues like smoking, sleep and habit change when it seems helpful. Sam commonly supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, family problems and caregiving strain.
He also works with concerns around eating, anger, self-esteem, career decisions and coping with life changes. Taking the first step can feel daunting. Sam aims to make that step straightforward by listening, offering clear options, and helping people find manageable ways forward.
How his approaches work online
Sam commonly blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy to offer practical online support. Client-centred therapy involves listening carefully and following the person’s lead, which helps people feel heard and understood. It suits concerns like grief, caregiving stress and relationship difficulties.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioural changes. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, sleep problems and low mood because it gives clear strategies to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sam discusses goals and preferences with each person and agrees together which methods to use. That collaborative planning can change over time as priorities shift or progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face style conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or mobility is an issue, live chat suits quick check-ins and text-based messaging is helpful for brief updates or when writing feels easier. These options aim to make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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