Sam Parker, BACP

Sam Parker is a BACP-registered counsellor (BACP - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) who works with adults and young people using a client-centered approach. He draws on six years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and the challenges of major life changes, alongside many related concerns such as relationship difficulties, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and addiction.

His background includes roles in Alternative Provision and Education, an NHS bereavement service, and work with a range of local and national charities. In those roles he has supported individuals aged from around 11 through to 75 and older, and has also been responsible for managing and training staff who provide wellbeing and addiction support.

Before training as a counsellor he completed postgraduate study in Theatre, and creativity remains an important part of how he thinks and connects with people. He balances sincerity with a readiness to share in a client's humour when appropriate, using that rapport to better understand each person's experience.

Sam adopts a non-judgmental, stigma-free stance that centres on the individual's needs. He aims to build a warm, compassionate space where people can explore what matters to them at their own pace, prioritising an empathic, client-led relationship throughout the therapeutic process.