Samantha Love , NCPS

Samantha Love is a counsellor who focuses on women's issues alongside relationship and trauma-related concerns. She offers straightforward, calm support for people facing anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, anger and self-esteem struggles. Samantha also works with those coping with life changes and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Her approach is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping people make small, manageable changes day to day.

She has 15 years of experience and holds NCPS, which is listed as her professional credential. Samantha studied psychology and completed a diploma in therapeutic counselling. Her background includes work in special educational needs within prison education and secondary schools, and she has experience supporting people on the autistic spectrum.

Samantha uses an integrative style that draws on several approaches. She brings in cognitive behavioural tools to address unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to steady the nervous system, and person-centred listening to make space for a person’s own priorities. She also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas and emotionally focused work when useful.

Creative methods are part of her toolkit too, offering different ways to talk about difficult material when words alone feel tricky. She offers online and telephone counselling, and has training in delivering therapy remotely. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Communication is prompt: she responds to enquiries Monday to Friday within 24 hours. Practical session times include weekday mornings and evenings and a Saturday afternoon slot, with scheduling handled after an initial matching questionnaire.

How Samantha’s approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and encourages actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments and behaviour changes, which can help with panic, social anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy centres on how early relationship patterns shape current struggles and can be helpful for intimacy issues and relationship distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will discuss what feels most relevant and try different ways of working together. She aims to make decisions with the client, matching methods to their goals and preferences rather than imposing a single technique.

Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while using the approaches described above.