Sally Smith

Sally Smith is a UK-based counsellor who works with children, young people and adults, supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds and ages from 11 to 70 plus. She has over five years of clinical experience, with her time equally split between working with adults and with young people and between in-person and online or telephone sessions.

Her practice includes both short-term counselling with a limited number of sessions and longer-term open-ended work. Sally is a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists and brings a warm, encouraging presence to her work.

Clients can expect a judgement-free space in which difficulties are explored collaboratively and in a way that is led by each person’s needs. If those needs are unclear, Sally works alongside clients to clarify them. Her approach is humanistic first and foremost, with integration of compassionate inquiry, cognitive behavioural techniques and resilience-building strategies when appropriate.

She has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement and various forms of loss including loss of direction. Sally also works with relationship difficulties involving partners, friends, children, parents and colleagues, and with job and career concerns including impostor syndrome. Her experience extends to clients affected by OCD, PTSD and other forms of trauma.

Sally recognises that taking the first steps toward change can feel daunting and offers encouragement to anyone who has already reached out. She would be honoured to work with you and looks forward to meeting you.