Sophie Samuel

Sophie Samuel is a UKCP and EAP accredited psychotherapist with a MSc in the person-centred approach from the Metanoia Institute (UK) and another in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. She has worked as a therapist in the NHS, a school and an eating disorder clinic as well as for the charities Woman’s Trust and Switchback (which supports young men to leave the justice system). She has also researched the impact of child maltreatment on brain development at University College London (UCL). Now working in private practice and with the low-cost community counselling service Focus Counselling, she believes in the power of the therapeutic relationship to effect change, commenting ‘For me, the art of listening and of truly being heard can be transformative’. She has extensive experience supporting people with issues such as depression, anxiety, bereavement, anger, stress, trauma and abuse, domestic violence, sexual issues, eating disorders and relationship issues.