- Years in practice
- 4
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Anger management
About Samantha
Samantha Quinn is a counsellor with four years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or major life changes. Samantha aims to offer calm, compassionate support and practical steps you can try between sessions.
She draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build values-based action, cognitive behavioural techniques for unhelpful thinking patterns, and attachment-informed work to understand relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, doable strategies alongside space to talk about painful feelings. Samantha has registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, recorded as BACP. She also has additional qualifications in ADHD coaching which she brings to conversations about focus, routine and motivation.
She communicates in plain language and avoids jargon so parents can follow the work easily. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Samantha helps people set short-term goals and practical experiments to try between meetings.
She also pays attention to how past relationships affect current struggles and to patterns that repeat over time. People meet her to work on parenting stress, relationship worries, self-esteem, addictive behaviours, grief and trauma, and career or life transitions. The sessions are adapted to fit each person’s aims, whether that means structured skill work or open, reflective conversation.
What Samantha works with
Everything Samantha lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Samantha helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Samantha lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Samantha’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, low mood and parenting pressures where values can guide practical choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and gives straightforward tools to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, sleep problems and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationship experiences affect current connections and emotional reactions, which can help with intimacy-related issues and parenting stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is seen or priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feeling. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat or messaging can be fitted into short breaks and used for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting schedules, work and daily life while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional understanding.
Questions people ask about Samantha
What concerns does Samantha help with?
Samantha supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger and self-esteem. Other areas include parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, addictions and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and practical, blending conversational listening with exercises and small experiments. The aim is to set clear, achievable steps that fit everyday life.
What is her background and experience?
She has four years of professional experience working with adults and holds additional qualifications in ADHD coaching. Her work focuses on helping people make steady progress over time.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is recorded as BACP with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and practices from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone session, live chat or via text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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