Sam Briggs

I am currently accepting new clients for both in-person (Bethnal Green) and online work. Please get in touch to ask about my most up to date availability.

I am a warm, qualified and experienced psychotherapist offering individual therapy both in-person in Bethnal Green and online, on either an open-ended or shorter-term basis. 

I’m a relational psychodynamic therapist. This means I bring a curiosity in understanding how past experience influences the person that you are today, and provide an accepting, safe and collaborative space where we can work together to make sense of the questions or issues that you might bring to therapy.

At its heart, therapy is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, the ways in which you relate to yourself and others, and the patterns in your life which seem to repeat themselves.

Whilst therapy never promises easy answers, this greater understanding often leads to change – to help you to cope with the parts of life which feel the most overwhelming, to find more authentic ways of living, and to feel more agency, meaning and hope for what comes next.

I have worked with clients on a broad range of issues and experience, including depression, anxiety, gender & sexuality, childhood trauma & abuse, difficulty with relationships, sex or intimacy, experience of domestic violence & bereavement. Or perhaps you feel lost, confused or overwhelmed – and we can start together there.

In addition to working privately, my therapeutic experience includes working in community mental health services, working with people experiencing homelessness or precarious housing & many years voluntary experience in suicide prevention.

I work in-person from my cosy and welcoming room at St. Margaret’s House (21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL) in Bethnal Green. It is a 3 minute (250m) walk from Bethnal Green tube station (Central Line), a 6 minute walk from Cambridge Heath Overground station & 12 minutes from Bethnal Green Overground station.

It is in close proximity to Hackney, Dalston, Shoreditch, Mile End, Whitechapel and much of East London.

My practice centres on listening attentively to understanding you, your world and your experience as a unique individual, in a space where you can speak honestly, openly and without judgement. I believe that lasting change in therapy comes from you, and rarely from a quick or easy fix – but together we can try to make that change possible.

My psychodynamic training means I bring an interest in your past experiences, starting from those earlier in life and in childhood, and understanding the ways in which you might instinctively repeat patterns, defence mechanisms or certain ways of relating to yourself or others. By bringing these unconscious processes into the open and understanding them more clearly, we might find a new way of being for you going forward.

I believe that therapy should be a place where everyone feels welcome, and provides a truly unique space to explore some of the most private, honest & vulnerable parts of yourself, in a setting that you feel you can trust to be open-minded, non-judgemental and confidential. We will only work with any labels that you might bring to the extent that they are meaningful for you, in the way that you define them, without pre-existing assumptions.

I am committed to an ethical, inclusive and politically-minded practice that supports this, with an awareness of how therapy sometimes fails to. I will always be attentive to understanding your identity and experience in context – giving space for the ways that social, cultural and political contexts and systems have a very real impact in shaping or limiting our identity, and how we live in the world, including experiences of classism, racism or racialisation, queerphobia, transphobia, ableism or any kind of oppression, marginalisation or violence.

My work with queer and trans people is affirming and my work around gender, sexuality and relationship diversity holds those experience and identities as important without assuming they are what brings you to therapy.

I offer an extended initial 75 minute session for us to meet each other, for me to understand a little about you and what you would like to get from therapy, and for you to decide if you feel like I am a good fit for what you are looking for in a therapist.

I charge a reduced fee of £50 for this initial session, regardless of if we continue working together.

If you have some additional questions, or if it feels helpful for us to discuss anything in advance of this session, I might suggest a 15 minute phone call.

We will also use this session to discuss how I work, to confirm fees and our regular weekly meeting time & agree whether our work together will be initially fixed-term or open-ended.

I am currently accepting new clients for both in-person (Bethnal Green) and online work. Please get in touch to ask about my most up to date availability.

I am a warm, qualified and experienced psychotherapist offering individual therapy both in-person in Bethnal Green and online, on either an open-ended or shorter-term basis.

I’m a relational psychodynamic therapist. This means I bring a curiosity in understanding how past experience influences the person that you are today, and provide an accepting, safe and collaborative space where we can work together to make sense of the questions or issues that you might bring to therapy.

At its heart, therapy is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, the ways in which you relate to yourself and others, and the patterns in your life which seem to repeat themselves.

Whilst therapy never promises easy answers, this greater understanding often leads to change – to help you to cope with the parts of life which feel the most overwhelming, to find more authentic ways of living, and to feel more agency, meaning and hope for what comes next.

I have worked with clients on a broad range of issues and experience, including depression, anxiety, gender & sexuality, childhood trauma & abuse, difficulty with relationships, sex or intimacy, experience of domestic violence & bereavement. Or perhaps you feel lost, confused or overwhelmed – and we can start together there.

In addition to working privately, my therapeutic experience includes working in community mental health services, working with people experiencing homelessness or precarious housing & many years voluntary experience in suicide prevention.

I work in-person from my cosy and welcoming room at St. Margaret’s House (21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL) in Bethnal Green. It is a 3 minute (250m) walk from Bethnal Green tube station (Central Line), a 6 minute walk from Cambridge Heath Overground station & 12 minutes from Bethnal Green Overground station.

It is in close proximity to Hackney, Dalston, Shoreditch, Mile End, Whitechapel and much of East London.

My practice centres on listening attentively to understanding you, your world and your experience as a unique individual, in a space where you can speak honestly, openly and without judgement. I believe that lasting change in therapy comes from you, and rarely from a quick or easy fix – but together we can try to make that change possible.

My psychodynamic training means I bring an interest in your past experiences, starting from those earlier in life and in childhood, and understanding the ways in which you might instinctively repeat patterns, defence mechanisms or certain ways of relating to yourself or others. By bringing these unconscious processes into the open and understanding them more clearly, we might find a new way of being for you going forward.

I believe that therapy should be a place where everyone feels welcome, and provides a truly unique space to explore some of the most private, honest & vulnerable parts of yourself, in a setting that you feel you can trust to be open-minded, non-judgemental and confidential. We will only work with any labels that you might bring to the extent that they are meaningful for you, in the way that you define them, without pre-existing assumptions.

I am committed to an ethical, inclusive and politically-minded practice that supports this, with an awareness of how therapy sometimes fails to. I will always be attentive to understanding your identity and experience in context – giving space for the ways that social, cultural and political contexts and systems have a very real impact in shaping or limiting our identity, and how we live in the world, including experiences of classism, racism or racialisation, queerphobia, transphobia, ableism or any kind of oppression, marginalisation or violence.

My work with queer and trans people is affirming and my work around gender, sexuality and relationship diversity holds those experience and identities as important without assuming they are what brings you to therapy.

I offer an extended initial 75 minute session for us to meet each other, for me to understand a little about you and what you would like to get from therapy, and for you to decide if you feel like I am a good fit for what you are looking for in a therapist.

I charge a reduced fee of £50 for this initial session, regardless of if we continue working together.

If you have some additional questions, or if it feels helpful for us to discuss anything in advance of this session, I might suggest a 15 minute phone call.

We will also use this session to discuss how I work, to confirm fees and our regular weekly meeting time & agree whether our work together will be initially fixed-term or open-ended.