Sam Harris
Calm practical counselling for life’s difficult moments
About Sam
Sam Harris is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a person-centred approach to help people cope with hard moments. He draws on three years of practical experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Sam aims to make starting therapy straightforward and approachable for someone feeling overwhelmed.
He focuses on listening first and helping people put words to what they feel. That often means looking at family difficulties, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or addiction.
Background and approach
He also works with people affected by chronic illness, caregiver strain, bereavement and major life changes. Sam uses a mix of gentle, practical methods. He adapts client-centred work with solution-focused tools and cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle unhelpful thinking and small, achievable changes.
He also offers psychodynamic thinking for people curious about how past experiences shape current patterns, and hypnotherapy when it suits someone’s goals. Sessions are intended to feel steady and non-judgemental. Sam helps people set short-term goals while also exploring deeper issues when that feels right.
He aims to balance coping strategies with space to talk about emotion and meaning. People considering therapy can expect clear, straightforward conversations about what they want to change. Sam encourages practical steps alongside emotional work so progress can be noticed between sessions.
What Sam works with
How Sam works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches online and how they can help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience without judgement. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often chosen for anxiety, depression, sleep or anger issues where people want clear techniques to try between sessions.
Sam will collaborate with each person to find the best mix of approaches. That means talking together about goals and trying methods that match those goals. The therapist adapts the plan as progress is made, so therapy feels tailored rather than fixed.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or healthcare appointments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
