Sam Agnew, BACP
9 years in practice
Sam Agnew is a counsellor who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and work with strong emotions.
License and registration
- BACP
- 394406 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Sam
Sam Agnew is a counsellor who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and work with strong emotions. She uses straightforward language and a calm style to make difficult topics easier to talk about. Sam is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation.
She has nine years of professional experience and supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar mood difficulties and grief. Sam also helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, workplace and career pressures, and neurodiversity issues such as ADHD and autism.
Background and approach
She also works with people navigating identity questions including LGBT matters. Her way of working is practical and person-centred. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her - their feelings, patterns and goals.
Sam combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with approaches from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to offer tools for emotion regulation, clearer thinking and committed action. Sam takes time to understand each person’s history and current challenges. She explains options plainly and builds a plan together that fits the client’s pace and needs.
Conversations can include exploring attachment patterns, coping strategies for addiction, or managing mood and sleep. People can expect warm, steady support and practical steps between sessions. Sam emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassion while helping people move toward clearer choices and a more manageable day to day.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sam lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
- ADHD
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- 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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sam names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotion-focused and values-based therapy works online
Emotion-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong emotions, understand the messages those emotions carry and change unhelpful patterns that keep problems going. It can be useful for processing loss, resolving long-standing hurt, and improving emotional connection with oneself. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to take small, values-led actions despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which suits issues like anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating affect current relationships and emotional responses and can help with trust, closeness and repeated relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and make decisions together about which methods to use. This collaborative process means methods are adapted over time if something is not working or priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or use less bandwidth, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or when note-style reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Sam help with?
Sam supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, depression and bipolar mood difficulties. She also works with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief and a wide range of other life challenges.
What is Sam's therapeutic style?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centred work, cognitive behavioural tools and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas. The style is practical and collaborative, with attention to emotions, thoughts and values.
How much experience does Sam have?
Sam has nine years of professional experience working with a broad range of concerns including trauma, addiction and neurodiversity-related needs.
What credentials and location apply?
Sam is accredited with BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Sam accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Sam?
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