Samantha Love , NCPS

Samantha Love is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of experience supporting people through relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression and a wide range of life transitions. She brings particular expertise in childhood trauma and abuse, working with survivors to build coping skills and restore a sense of safety and direction. Her practice also addresses family challenges, intimacy-related concerns, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression.

Samantha has a background in special educational needs within prison education and secondary education settings and has worked as a counsellor in both environments. She also has a specialist focus on counselling people on the autistic spectrum and has experience tutoring counselling students online. Her clinical training includes a degree in Psychology and a diploma in therapeutic counselling. She holds the NCPS credential and is a member of the BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists), NCS (National Counselling Society) and ACTO (Association for Counselling and Therapy Online).

Her approach is integrative, blending tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic thinking, mindfulness-based techniques and person-centred practice, and she often incorporates creative methods to help people express and explore difficult material. Samantha is trained in online and telephone counselling, responds to inquiries within 24 hours Monday to Friday, and keeps regular clinic hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays as listed on her site.