Samantha Love is a United Kingdom-based therapist with 15 years of clinical experience, offering support for relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, stress and anxiety, family matters, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes. She identifies as a female, older, non-religious, liberal therapist and provides work tailored to those needs.

She has particular expertise in working with childhood trauma and childhood abuse, alongside everyday anxiety, positive thinking, addictions, family issues and relationship challenges. Her professional background includes specialist education and support for special educational needs within prison education and secondary education settings, where she has practised as a counsellor. She also holds a specialisation in counselling people on the autistic spectrum.

Samantha follows an integrative approach, drawing on a range of counselling frameworks to suit each individual. She makes use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychodynamic methods, mindfulness-based techniques and person-centred therapy, applying these in ways appropriate to a client’s needs. She also incorporates creative therapy techniques to help people feel more at ease when exploring difficult material.

Her formal qualifications include a degree in Psychology and a diploma in therapeutic counselling. She has tutored counselling students online and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and the National Counselling Society (NCS), working in line with their ethical frameworks. Samantha is trained in online and telephone counselling and is a member of the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO).

Samantha responds to enquiries and communication within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Clinic hours are: Mon 12 pm – 6 pm, Tues 8 am – 6 pm, Wed 2 pm – 6 pm, Thurs 3 pm – 6 pm, Fri 3 pm – 6 pm. More information is available at samanthalovecounselling.com.