Samantha Love, NCPS

Samantha Love welcomes people seeking help with relationships, trauma, anxiety and life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for busy parents and stressed individuals. Samantha's approach is adaptable and she focuses on practical steps clients can try between meetings.

Samantha has 15 years' experience working in education and prison education settings where she supported people with special educational needs. She has a background in counselling people on the autistic spectrum and with family and relationship strains. Her work also covers grief, sleep problems, anger and difficulties linked to trauma and abuse.

She uses a blend of counselling methods chosen to suit each person. That includes cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, client-centred listening to follow what matters most, and mindfulness to build calmer moments. Emotionally-Focused and Acceptance and Commitment approaches also inform her work with attachment and intimacy issues.

Samantha holds a degree in Psychology and a diploma in therapeutic counselling. She is listed with NCPS which is shown as NCPS. She has taught counselling students online and has experience offering sessions by phone and video.

Sessions are offered in English and Samantha accepts international clients. Communication responses are usually within 24 hours Monday to Friday. Practical options for meeting include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.

She aims to help people find achievable changes, reduce distressing symptoms and regain a sense of direction in everyday life.

How Samantha uses evidence-based approaches online

Samantha commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online work. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions, which can help with anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns to reduce symptoms of depression, panic and social anxiety.

She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early connections affect current relationships and intimacy. That work helps people understand patterns in close relationships and to try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and Samantha treats it as a collaboration. She will talk through your goals, try methods that fit your needs and adjust over time. Clients help decide what feels most useful, and practical exercises are often given between sessions to try out in everyday life.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging which offer flexibility for different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can fit a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or when regular written reflection helps progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the approaches above to support progress.