Sarah Semper, BACP

Sarah Semper is a counsellor with 14 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety and low mood. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting pressures, grief and the emotional impact of health conditions. Sarah also works with issues around self-esteem, motivation and coping with life changes. She is a BACP member, which is shown as BACP in her listed credentials.

Sarah draws on a mix of talking therapy and practical techniques in sessions. She brings creative tools from an arts psychotherapy background, using art, imagery and other expressive methods when they suit the person. Cognitive behavioural strategies are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns.

Her approach is warm and collaborative. Sessions aim to help people build emotional clarity and stronger self-worth. The focus is on simple, applicable steps people can use between appointments.

Sarah commonly works with people coping with chronic pain, illness or disability and with attachment or trauma-related difficulties. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome.

Practical issues like communication, commitment and control problems are explored alongside deeper themes of abandonment, dissociation and body image. Sarah combines short-term goals with longer-term reflection so therapy fits daily life and the challenges a person brings.

To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.

How Sarah's approaches can work online

Sarah uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust; this can help with intimacy, attachment worries and relationship difficulties. Client-Centred Therapy underpins a respectful, non-judgemental way of working where the person sets the pace and focus, which suits people who want a steady, supportive space.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical exercises. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and managing stress with clear steps to try between sessions.

Finding the right fit is part of the process and Sarah works collaboratively to decide which approaches will help most. She will talk through goals and preferences, try methods that match those aims, and adjust based on what feels useful to the person.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around busy lives, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find it straightforward to use creative exercises and CBT tasks remotely when agreed with the therapist.