Samantha Wilkinson, BACP
6 years in practice
Samantha Wilkinson is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a central way to help people understand difficult feelings.
License and registration
- BACP
- 405590 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 6
- 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 Samantha
Samantha Wilkinson is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a central way to help people understand difficult feelings. She draws on six years of practice to offer calm, practical support for common life problems. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up.
Samantha helps with stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and coping with life changes. She also supports people experiencing relationship strain, intimacy issues, low self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
Addictions, sleep and eating troubles, and some mood concerns such as depression and bipolar are within her areas of focus. She has experience working with neurodivergent people and pays close attention to how thinking styles affect everyday coping. Samantha also works with issues connected to attachment, abandonment and communication problems.
Other practical concerns she helps with include career stress, caregiver strain and chronic pain or illness challenges. Samantha uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a client-centred attitude. Sessions are conversational and aim to build understanding, set small goals and practise useful skills between meetings.
She views clients as the expert of their own story and focuses on strengths. Samantha is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, commonly shown as BACP. She offers sessions in English and sees people across the United Kingdom and internationally through online formats.
To start, clients complete a short questionnaire and arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Samantha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- 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
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- 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
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Samantha 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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Online support
Emotion and action in online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) aims to help people notice and understand strong emotions and how those feelings shape relationships and choices. It can be useful for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected and want clearer access to what matters to them.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on flexible action rather than fighting thoughts. It helps people identify values, accept difficult sensations or memories, and take small steps toward a more meaningful life even when feelings are hard.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current patterns of relating and trust. This approach can be helpful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues or repeated relationship difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will discuss goals, preferences and how symptoms show up, then together they will try methods that best fit the person. The process is collaborative and may include checking in on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, journalling between sessions or when a written thread fits better with daily life. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Samantha help with?
Samantha supports people with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and a wide range of life challenges. She also works on relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, addictions and mood concerns including depression and bipolar.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and direct, using Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside ACT, CBT and client-centred methods. Sessions are conversational, focused on understanding feelings and developing practical coping steps.
How much experience does she have?
Samantha has six years of professional practice supporting people with varied life experiences. That time includes work with neurodivergent clients and those facing long-term caregiving or chronic health concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international work are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients through online session formats.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and routines.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Fees vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Samantha?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. You can then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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