Samuel Fawcett, BACP

Samuel Fawcett is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. He trained and works under the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and draws on his own experience of living with obsessive compulsive disorder to inform his practice.

He often works with people dealing with stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related problems, and difficulties linked to attachment and shame. Samuel pays attention to both the behaviours that cause distress and the thoughts that keep them going. He aims to help people untangle symptoms and understand what matters to them beyond the immediate problem.

Samuel uses exposure and response prevention together with cognitive approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, and compassion-focused ways of working. He explains what these methods involve and adapts them to each person's needs, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. He says behavioural techniques can feel alienating for some people and takes time to find ways that fit each person.

In sessions he balances practical work on habits and symptoms with space to talk about values, identity and life direction. That can include looking at guilt, forgiveness, intimacy difficulties, obsessions and compulsions, or struggles with self-worth. He also supports men with specific concerns related to gendered expectations.

Samuel welcomes straightforward conversations about goals and how therapy might fit into a person's life. People who want to start are invited to follow the site's process to match and book sessions according to availability.

Approaches for habits, thoughts and relationships online

Samuel works with a small number of evidence-based techniques and explains them in plain language. Exposure and response prevention is one method he uses to help people gradually face feared thoughts or situations while reducing compulsive reactions. Cognitive approaches look at the thinking patterns that keep anxiety and unhelpful habits going and teach alternative ways of responding.

He also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and compassion-focused ways of working to help people clarify what matters to them and to reduce self-criticism. The therapist treats choosing an approach as a team effort and will check in about what feels useful. Together they decide which methods to try based on goals, preferences and how someone responds in early sessions.

If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into daily life because they remove travel time and can be scheduled around work or family commitments. Others value shorter check-ins or audio-only conversations when that better suits their day. Samuel will help shape sessions so they work with practical routines and the realities of day-to-day life.