Samantha Wilkinson, BACP
Somatic-informed counsellor focusing on practical change
About Samantha
Samantha Wilkinson is a counsellor who blends somatic work with talking therapies to help people feel steadier in their bodies and minds. She holds BACP accreditation and brings six years of practical experience to sessions. Samantha writes plainly and listens closely to each person’s story before planning next steps.
She supports people coping with stress and anxiety, depression, grief and life changes. She also helps those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, addictions, burnout and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work with neurodivergent clients and people exploring identity and LGBT issues. Samantha uses approaches that connect bodily awareness with thoughts and feelings. This can include gentle attention to physical sensations alongside conversation.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive strategies to help people handle difficult thoughts and rebuild daily routines. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person’s comfort. Samantha encourages small experiments between sessions, simple tools to manage overwhelming moments, and reflection on what matters most.
The emphasis is on building skills that fit a person’s life, not on quick fixes. People who choose Samantha usually want clear, steady guidance and a collaborative relationship. She works in English and sees international clients by online formats.
To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions that suit their schedules.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Somatic work brings attention to bodily sensations and movement. Online somatic-informed sessions might guide gentle grounding or breath awareness to reduce overwhelming feelings, which can help with anxiety, trauma and stress-related symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and taking small meaningful actions. It helps people notice difficult thoughts without letting them dictate choices, which can suit issues like depression, anxiety and life changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It can help people understand intimacy problems, communication difficulties and patterns that repeat in relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will listen, discuss what feels helpful and try different methods together until a good fit emerges. The aim is collaborative planning based on the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions via video, phone, chat or messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They offer flexibility for people who travel, care for others or live far from services. Therapists registered or accredited in the UK can use these formats to provide consistent ongoing support and practical tools over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- 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
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Personality disorders
- 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
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English