Our lives are a series of ever-shifting contexts and challenges, raising questions about our own sense of connection, identity, agency and meaning. I offer a welcoming and confidential space to explore and make sense of your experiences, including psychosexual and relational difficulties and significant life events.
I enjoy working with adult individuals and couples and my approach to therapeutic work is integrative, relational, collaborative and client focused. My integrative stance focuses on the subjectivity of individual experience, meaning that I am able to offer a tailored approach to my clients. This may be brief or longer-term therapy and is informed by a range of perspectives – particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment theory, compassion focused and humanistic theories – inevitably focusing on the relationship we forge with ourselves, others and the world. I work with a range of presentations including relationship and psychosexual challenges, self-esteem and confidence, cancer and other chronic and terminal health conditions, loss and bereavement and adjustment to life events.
You can find out more about what I offer here: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/deborah-samson
I have over 10 years of counselling experience and have been a qualified Counselling Psychologist working in an NHS acute hospital setting for seven years. I am registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC and as a Chartered Psychologist with the BPS. I have also completed a two year Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual Therapy and am a registered Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist (RegCOSRT). I also continue to engage enthusiastically with new knowledge and trainings to facilitate and broaden my understandings of myself and others.
