Sarah Ankamah, BACP

Sarah Ankamah is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and loneliness. She also supports those dealing with relationships, grief, motivation and self-esteem concerns, including people facing challenges related to chronic illness and life changes.

She creates a calm, non-judgmental space for people to talk through what matters most to them. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. The aim is to help clients recognise patterns, build coping skills and gain clearer perspectives on difficult issues.

Sarah uses client-centred therapy to keep the person and their experience at the heart of the work. She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical ways to shift them. These approaches are blended to fit individual goals rather than applied as rigid techniques.

People who come to Sarah often want help with coping during life transitions, improving close relationships, or managing the emotional strain of long-term health issues. She also works with concerns such as codependency, dissociation, postpartum depression and multicultural or immigration-related stress.

Her style is warm and straightforward. She helps people set small, manageable goals and checks progress together. Anyone unsure whether this is the right fit is invited to make initial contact and explore whether working together feels helpful.

Approaches that guide online support

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people clarify their feelings and choices. This approach is helpful for building trust, exploring grief, or navigating life transitions.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, low mood and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods to what suits each person. That means sessions can focus more on listening and exploration at times, and more on skills and practice at other times.

The original profile does not specify session formats, so please confirm available online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make regular work on thoughts and behaviours more practical between other commitments.