Samantha Bishop
Calm, practical therapy for life’s hard moments
About Samantha
Samantha Bishop is a counsellor with seven years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues related to LGBT identity. Samantha aims to make it easier to begin therapy by offering a calm, approachable presence from the first contact.
She creates a space where clients can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgement.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be straightforward and practical. Samantha listens closely and helps clients find small, manageable steps to feel steadier in daily life. Her work also covers relationship concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and difficulties with sleep or eating.
She can support people facing career stress, addiction worries, parenting strain, or compassion fatigue. Samantha is comfortable working with neurodiversity and complex relational patterns such as attachment or abandonment issues. Samantha is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a warm, person-centred style. The result is practical therapy that aims to help people regain a sense of control over their lives. Sessions can be arranged online for people in the UK and internationally.
Samantha encourages anyone who is unsure about starting to try a short initial conversation to see if it feels like the right fit.
What Samantha works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy and what they do
Samantha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach helps people recognise and adjust unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns so they can reduce anxiety and manage low mood. Another approach emphasises building emotional awareness and regulating strong feelings, which is useful after trauma or during periods of intense stress.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and personal preferences. That conversation shapes a plan that can change as progress is made so the work fits what you need.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break during the day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options give practical flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or long distances.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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 problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
