About me
Samantha Locke is a highly experienced and accredited therapist with more than 25 years of clinical experience supporting tweens, teenagers, young adults, couples, and families. She works with anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, trauma, self esteem, bereavement, addiction, and learning differences, alongside school stress, relationship strain, and wider family issues. She also supports parents and children through the emotional and practical impact of separation or divorce, helping families rebuild steadier routines, communication, and connection. Her approach is grounded, collaborative, and sensitive to identity, belonging, and relationship concerns and questioning.
Samantha serves as the Founder, and Clinical Director of YoungMINDED Clinical Solutions, where she leads a team of highly skilled and dedicated professionals. Each member of her team has been carefully selected for their expertise and outstanding training, ensuring they work cohesively to provide exceptional care. United by a shared commitment to client wellbeing, Samantha and her team at YoungMINDED collaborate closely to deliver the highest standard of support and help clients achieve their personal goals with compassion and professionalism.
Professional Credentials: Samantha is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counselor-Clinical Supervisor (LPC-S), Master Addictions Counselor (MAC), a fully Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) with additional certifications in tele-health, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and motivational interviewing.
Clinical Focus and Approach: Her clinical focus is person-centered and strength-based, incorporating Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and EMDR to help clients grow, heal, and thrive from their struggles.
Community and Media Engagement: For 15 years, Samantha has developed clinical programs for American expat communities in Germany and Italy, including hosting a weekly radio show offering parenting, teen support, and education to the military community in Vicenza Italy.
Supervisory Experience: She has over 14 years of experience as a Clinical Supervisor, utilizing Developmental and Integrated Models of Supervision, with expertise in various therapeutic approaches including CBT, DBT, EMDR, Family Systems and REBT.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an American trained provider with a total 7 years of University education plus 5 years of supervised internship to gain my license to practice as a independent therapist in the USA. I have over 20 years’ of postgraduate experience. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counsellor with Clinical Supervisor endorsement (LPC-S), master’s level addictions therapist (MAC) and Registered Accredited-Member of British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP-Accred).
I worked with the American Department of Defense for over 15 years living in several European countries before settling in the United Kingdom in 2021. This has given me an extra area of insight and experience working with Men and other expats.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fees vary depending on the service, and level of support needed. Packages and concession rates are available for those experiencing financial pressure or flexibility of payments.
Couples Connection Foundation educational sessions are offered as an 8 to 10 session programme, typically scheduled fortnightly. The focus is on rebuilding communication, strengthening emotional connection, and creating steadier relationship habits that carry into everyday life.
Samantha Locke is the Founder and Clinical Director of YoungMINDED Clinical Solutions. She leads a warm, values led team of highly skilled professionals and takes great care in matching clients with the right support so they feel understood, held, and genuinely helped from the very start.
Further information
My work is with children to adults with a wealth of experience with teens and young adults and their family systems. I provide individual, group and couples therapy in my practice.
