Samantha Bagshaw is an integrative counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She specialises in working with young people and their families as well as adults in either short-term solution-focused work or longer-term psychoanalytic work.

Her fee for a fifty-minute face-to-face session at the Cherry Tree Therapy Centre is £55.00. She offers a free thirty-minute first session to see if you are a good fit for working together. Her hours of work are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings and weekends, 9am-12pm.

Samantha specialises in working with young people as well as adults and families who are experiencing challenges. She is also a practitioner working with children and families for a local authority. Samantha has successfully supported young people aged 12 years and above, as well as adults, for over two decades with their emotional and mental health challenges.

She has worked with self-harm, identity issues, relationship struggles, low mood, depression, anxiety, ASD and ADHD, work-related stress, family issues, bereavement, and redundancy.

Education:

• Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy
• BSc Honours degree in Health and Social Care
• Postgraduate Diploma in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Work Experience: Samantha has worked all her life with children and adolescents who have grown up in the care system, in education with young people, or with adults in an NHS primary care trust. She has been a senior practitioner for Essex CAMHS.

About Samantha Bagshaw: Her original training was in psychodynamic counselling. She has since worked using various therapeutic approaches including systemic work, CBT with children and families, solution-focused therapy, and psychodynamic work with adults.

Samantha’s psychodynamic training gives her the perfect knowledge of counselling theory to support clients in navigating their challenges. She has a deep understanding of how difficult it can be to work through issues that have been buried for years, but she believes these need to be understood and embraced as part of the self.

Through work together, Samantha can help clients find acceptance in difficult situations so that they don’t feel stuck anymore. Her humanistic approach works with the client’s agenda, offering a safe space to explore and discover solutions, integrating the whole self.

If you would like to work with Samantha Bagshaw, please complete the form below and she will get in touch.