Sam Cox
Calm online support for stress and trauma
About Sam
Sam Cox offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction or depression. He focuses on helping individuals untangle difficult feelings and make small, useful changes in their day-to-day lives. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to suit each person’s needs.
Sam works online with people across the United Kingdom and internationally in English. Sam has four years of experience as a practising therapist. He trained in psychotherapy at The Mary Ward Centre and Kingston College, London, and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
His background includes roles in the NHS, the prison service, student wellbeing, housing support, general practice and addiction services. He describes his work as integrative and person-centred with psychodynamic influences. In sessions he helps people make sense of current struggles by looking at past relationships and patterns.
Conversations typically cover feelings, behaviours, relationships and everyday stresses so that clearer choices can emerge. Sam also offers support around relationship strain, trauma and abuse, bereavement, anger and self-esteem. He works with issues linked to adoption and foster care, attachment and commitment concerns, and complex needs such as co-morbidity and chronic illness.
The aim is to build understanding and practical steps forward. First sessions include questions about what’s going on now and a bit of personal history. People can expect an open conversation about symptoms, relationships, strengths and goals.
From there Sam and the person set a pace and plan that feels manageable.
What Sam works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches you can expect online
Sam practises an integrative model that blends person-centred work and psychodynamic thinking. Person-centred work focuses on listening closely, helping people feel heard, and supporting them to find their own solutions. Psychodynamic work looks at how past relationships and patterns influence current feelings and choices, which can help with deeper emotional issues such as trauma or repeated relationship difficulties.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Sam will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to suit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative decision so the plan evolves as trust and understanding grow.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates or people who prefer writing. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel commitments, and to continue work consistently even when life is busy.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
