Sam Agnew
Experienced BACP counsellor focused on practical support
About Sam
Sam Agnew is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. Sam aims to make talking about difficult issues straightforward and clear.
She draws on several evidence-based models to shape sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. Sessions are tailored to each person, so the techniques used change to match the concern and what the person finds helpful.
Background and approach
Sam helps people with stress and anxiety, addiction issues, trauma and abuse, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar. She also supports those dealing with grief, career decisions, intimacy-related difficulties, relationship problems, parenting strain and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of focus include ADHD, autism, body image, chronic illness, bereavement and adoption or foster care matters.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sam works through manageable steps, teaches coping skills, and helps people practise new ways of responding between sessions. She uses straightforward language so the work feels accessible and relevant to daily life.
People from outside the United Kingdom may also work with Sam, and sessions are held in English. The initial steps involve a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that suits the person’s needs.
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Sessions & fees
How Sam’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as Sam uses it, focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to them. It teaches small actions that bring daily life closer to personal values and can help with anxiety, depression and coping with change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Sam uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical skills for sleep, mood, addiction and stress management.
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can be useful for intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns and improving relationship skills.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Sam will discuss these options with the person and adapt techniques to fit their goals and preferences. The decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging is handy for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments while keeping a consistent routine.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
