Samantha Holt
Calm, practical support for overwhelming emotions
About Samantha
Samantha Holt offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or difficult relationships. She introduces practical ways to manage strong emotions and helps clients understand patterns that affect daily life. Samantha uses clear, everyday language and aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone reading on a phone.
She is identified with the NCPS credential and brings five years of practice in psychological work. Her approach centres on exploring how early attachments and current relationships shape emotional responses.
Background and approach
She combines attachment-focused thinking with client-centred listening to help individuals feel heard and respected. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when people want practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Samantha has worked in a variety of clinical settings and has experience supporting people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction and eating-related concerns.
She also addresses issues such as anger, sleep problems, intimacy-related difficulties, ADHD and coping with life changes. This background informs a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. In sessions she encourages people to notice patterns rather than blame themselves, and to practise small changes between meetings.
Work may include grounding or trauma-focused strategies when trauma or abuse is part of the story. The overall aim is clearer thinking, steadier mood and more satisfying relationships. Practical matters are kept simple: sessions may be by video, phone or text-based formats.
Samantha accepts international clients and supports people who want steady, collaborative care to move forward.
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How Samantha works
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Sessions & fees
How Samantha’s approaches translate to online therapy
Samantha uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current moods and relationships. This approach helps when patterns in close relationships cause anxiety, trust issues or difficulty with intimacy. She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying practical exercises to change feelings and behaviour. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and coping with change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will discuss goals and preferences with each person and try different ways of working to see what fits best. This collaborative process means techniques are chosen to match the client’s needs rather than imposed from the start.
Online therapy lets people access sessions in ways that suit them. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and shared exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide a flexible option for brief updates, journalling prompts or ongoing support between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy around work, family or travel and make it easier to continue when life is busy.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
