About Samantha
Samantha Lawson is a counsellor with four years of practice in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and has supported people through problems like addiction, low mood, relationship strain, and low self-esteem. She emphasises a practical, collaborative approach that recognises each person's strengths and pace.
Her work draws on several therapy methods so she can tailor the approach to the person in front of her. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps rather than lengthy theory.
Background and approach
She aims to help people spot unhelpful patterns, build coping strategies, and make steady changes. Samantha values emotional safety and steady progression. She helps people name difficult feelings and try different ways of responding.
Conversations are straightforward and grounded, with space to reflect and plan next steps. She has experience offering many sessions across online formats and uses that experience to shape how she works remotely. Samantha invites people to bring practical problems and real-life goals to therapy, whether that is sleeping better, coping with loss, or improving confidence.
People often come with issues such as trauma, compassion fatigue, career stress or intimacy-related concerns. Samantha's approach is adaptable so the work can shift as needs change. She encourages realistic goals and celebrates small gains along the way.
How Samantha blends approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood, and motivation problems because it focuses on what matters most and small steps toward those things.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, known as CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. In practical sessions Samantha helps people test unhelpful beliefs, try new behaviours and build everyday coping strategies for issues like insomnia, low self-esteem and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and experience. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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