Sarah Ankamah, BACP

Sarah Ankamah is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what feels hard and figure out practical next steps.

She helps people manage stress and anxiety, low mood, and problems with self-esteem and motivation. She also supports those dealing with grief, relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, and addictive behaviours. Her work includes attention to parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.

Sarah draws on client-centred ways of working to put the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different coping strategies. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs and wants to work on.

Sarah pays attention to attachment issues, dissociation, codependency, and feelings of emptiness. She has additional focus on chronic illness and disability, postpartum depression, multicultural and immigration concerns, forgiveness, and issues commonly experienced by young adults and women.

Her approach is straightforward and practical. She listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people build small, manageable steps forward. That combination aims to make change easier to notice and sustain.

How her approaches work online

Sarah uses client-centred therapy to start by listening carefully to each person and prioritising their experience. This approach helps people feel heard and understood while they decide what matters most to work on.

She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers clear, practical strategies to test unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills, useful for anxiety, low mood and stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences and daily life. That collaborative planning is revisited as progress is made and priorities change.

Online sessions allow a range of ways to connect. Video calls can mirror face-to-face conversations and allow visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer to write, need flexible timing, or want to reflect between messages. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to keep momentum between sessions.