Samantha Walding
Calm, practical support for stuck moments
About Samantha
Samantha Walding helps people who feel stuck by offering a calm, steady presence and practical ways forward. She introduces short, manageable steps so clients can notice small changes quickly. Samantha writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person.
She uses her 20 years of experience to listen closely to each person’s story. Samantha works with stress, anxiety, depression and grief, and supports people dealing with addiction and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency and sexual concerns. Samantha draws on Client-Centred and Attachment-Based approaches to build a trusting space and to follow the client’s pace. She also uses Psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated patterns, and Solution-Focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals.
Sessions are aimed at helping people develop better coping and clearer choices. People meet her when they want to understand why certain patterns keep repeating. She helps with feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, along with anger, jealousy and struggles with self-esteem.
Samantha also supports those coping with separation and the practical fallout of relationship change. Samantha is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom. She offers conversations that are respectful, straightforward and tailored to each person’s needs.
If someone wants a steady guide who values their own knowledge about their life, she may be a good match.
What Samantha works with
How Samantha works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches online that focus on safety and change
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at repeated ways of relating and helps clients build more stable connections with others and themselves. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions; the therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy and helps them clarify what they want to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will discuss these options and collaborate to pick what fits a person’s goals and preferences. The choice may shift over time as needs change, and she aims to match methods to what a client finds most helpful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when being on camera is tiring, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, family or long distances, while letting therapists use attachment and client-centred techniques effectively across different ways of meeting.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
