Samantha Walding, BACP

Samantha Walding is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or depression. She also works with issues around relationships, addiction, family conflict and intimacy-related difficulties, including feelings such as jealousy.

Samantha believes clients are the experts in their own stories. In sessions she listens closely and helps people notice their strengths. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, so conversations aim to make everyday life feel more manageable.

Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centred ways of working that prioritise the person in front of her. Psychodynamic thinking is used when it helps to understand recurring feelings or relationship patterns.

Samantha adds solution-focused tools when someone needs shorter-term, goal-oriented support. That can mean breaking a problem into small, manageable steps and tracking what changes help most. Throughout, she keeps the pace set by the person who is attending.

She practises in the United Kingdom and works with people who want to talk about life changes, grief, addictions, sex and intimacy concerns, or challenges with self-worth. Samantha invites people to take the first step, recognising how brave it can feel to reach out.

How Samantha's approaches translate to online therapy

Samantha uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches that fit well with remote work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and behaviours, helping people understand why they react the way they do. Client-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting, giving people space to talk and be heard without judgement.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about what they want from therapy and try different ways of working until a good fit emerges. Goals, preferences and what feels comfortable guide the plan rather than a fixed method.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Many people find online therapy easier to fit into a busy week, saves travel time and makes regular check-ins simpler. It can also allow shorter or more frequent appointments when that helps with recovery and coping. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often adapt materials and exercises for remote sessions so progress can continue between meetings.