Samantha Wallace
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About me
Hey, I'm Sam 😊 I offer space for you to feel heard, understood and empowered without any judgment.
Within our therapy, I can support you to gain self-acceptance and self-worth (including learning to improve your relationship to your own needs and wants).
Therapy offers space to share how you're truly feeling, talk through what’s on your mind and process previous experiences. It can also help you to break unhelpful cycles and move beyond feeling 'stuck'.
Our sessions will go at a pace that feels best for you and I can support you to identify and meet your own goals.
You may have a specific goal in mind for therapy but if you aren't completely sure why you are reaching out for support (you may feel as though you don't feel yourself or aren't feeling quite right) it's ok to not be 100% sure about why you need help or what help would be best.
Part of therapy will be for us to understand what's feeling difficult at the moment and we can collaboratively work out the best way forward (that aligns with who you want to be and the life you want to live).
If your emotional responses to situations happening in the here and now feel bigger than what you’d expect, therapy can help you understand what’s causing this and help towards healing this part of you.
During therapy we’ll explore what’s impacting you currently and we can explore your previous experiences to build understanding of what beliefs, emotions and patterns of behaviour may be working against you. We’ll also challenge any limiting beliefs to support you in believing you are worthy, deserving and enough.
So many of us spend time on auto-pilot from day to day, having to cope with bad sleep, low mood, anxiety, and avoiding plans and opportunities that we would love to be a part of.
You deserve to feel better and live the type of life you want to. Therapy can support you in reducing the barriers around, and within you, and help you feel more confident to do more.
I work in a trauma-informed way to ensure the therapeutic process feels safe for you.
I understand it can be difficult to make time for yourself or to put your own needs first. Therapy can help you learn how to talk to yourself in a kinder way and prioritise your needs without feeling guilty.
If you are considering therapy, know that you deserve support & please do reach out with any questions then we can see if I’d be a good fit therapeutically (and if not what alternatives might feel best) ☺️
Training, qualifications & experience
I mainly support clients who are struggling with
- Anxiety & Stress
- Self-Esteem & Confidence
- Trauma
- Depression
- Boundaries
- Grief & Loss
- Self-Development
I'm neurodiversity & LGBTQ+ affirming.
Training
- Diploma (PgDip) in Counselling and Groupwork: A CBT Approach
- Certificate in Counselling Skills (COSCA)
- Psychology (BA Hons)
- ASIST Suicide Intervention Training
- CBT-T (Ten Sessions For Non-Underweight Eating Disorders such as Binge Eating Disorder)
Experience
- Victim Support Volunteer
- NHS Befriending Volunteer
- Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner (Qwell)
- Client Care Adviser (Lifeworks EAP)
- Counsellor within Local College
Member organisations
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
Online Session = £50
Free initial consultation call / video
When I work
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If the times showing for booking a free introductory call don’t suit, send over an email with your availability and I’ll try to match up with a time that works ☺️
Further information
You might feel uncertain of what counselling will involve or how it will feel - it can be scary to take that step to reach out.
I encourage you to try so that you can have someone with you, listening to and supporting you through this potentially difficult time.
It can be a good idea to save a few profiles and book in a few introductory calls with different therapists to see who you feel would be the best match for you :)
