About Sam
Sam Agnew is a counsellor who draws on somatic awareness alongside talking therapies to help people feel steadier in their day-to-day lives. She works with issues such as stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief and depression. Sam also supports people with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, career stress and self-esteem difficulties.
Sam holds BACP registration, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has nine years of professional experience working with adults in the United Kingdom and with international clients.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged in a number of online formats. Her approach mixes body-focused work with acceptance-based ideas and practical strategies. That means paying attention to physical responses as well as thoughts and feelings, and using exercises to build new coping skills.
Sam adapts sessions to each person rather than following a single fixed model. People come for help with specific problems like ADHD, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, chronic pain or caregiving stress. She also helps with complex issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, trauma and co‑occurring challenges like bipolar or personality concerns.
Sam aims to create a respectful and compassionate space. She focuses on listening, practical tools, and collaborative planning so clients can try small steps between sessions and notice change over time.
How Sam blends somatic work and talking therapies online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and tension show up in the body. It uses breath, movement and grounding to reduce overwhelm and build regulation skills, which can help with trauma, anxiety and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters. It is useful for anxiety, depression and life changes where people want clearer direction and values-based action.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections. It can help people understand relationship difficulties, intimacy problems and attachment wounds.
Finding the right therapeutic mix is a collaborative process. Sam will work with each person to identify which approaches fit their needs, goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, so people can choose what suits their life. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and allows ongoing support from home or abroad.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English