Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Samantha Seymour
About Samantha Seymour
I entered counselling with a deep-rooted passion for supporting women and helping them live fuller, more empowered lives.
Somewhere along the way, though, I realised that good counselling wasn't about having all the right words, taking endless notes, or trying to rescue somebody from what they were going through.
It was about being present. Listening. Being curious and really understanding where somebody was in that moment.
So I let go of the scripts, the buzzwords and the quiet pressure to have all the answers. What emerged was a much more honest and authentic way of working.
I'm a Counsellor and Psychotherapist who has lived a full life. I have faced significant challenges, and I know how it feels when life doesn't go according to plan.
I'm professional, but I'm also very real.
Counselling for Women in Adelaide
Women come to me for all sorts of reasons.
You may be questioning a relationship or noticing the same patterns repeating again and again. You may be exhausted from looking after everybody else, struggling with anxiety or depression, grieving someone or something you've lost, adjusting to illness or a diagnosis, or wondering who you are now that life looks different.
Or perhaps nothing dramatic has happened at all.
You simply know that something isn't working anymore.
You don't have to fit neatly into a category before you come through the door. We can start with what's happening for you and work from there.
What is it like to work with me?
I want the counselling room to be somewhere you can feel heard, understood, and able to speak honestly.
I won't tell you how to live your life, and I'm not there to rescue you. I'll listen, I'll be curious, I'll ask questions and, when it's useful, I'll challenge you to look at something from a different perspective.
Most importantly, we'll work at your pace.
I don't believe counselling needs to feel cold or clinical. There is professional training and therapeutic knowledge behind the way I work, but there is also a human being sitting across from you.
Professional support. Human first.
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Lived Experience and Life Changes
Being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2020 created a lot of change for me.
Change stopped being something I spoke about with clients and became something I was living every day.
I experienced the grief of my life changing unexpectedly, the fear of what the future might look like, and the loss of parts of my identity I had taken for granted. MS taught me a great deal about myself, and I didn't find my way through by pretending everything was okay or trying to put a positive spin on it.
I had to make room for the grief, fear and uncertainty without allowing myself to stay stuck there. Over time, I reinvented myself and built a life that feels more aligned with who I am now.
That experience taught me something I carry into my work today. When life changes, we don't always need to rush in and fix it. Sometimes we need somewhere to understand what's happened, grieve what we've lost, and work out what comes next.
How life experiences shape my work
I believe lived experience has an important place in the counselling room.
Not because my story is the same as yours. Of course it won't be. Sometimes it matters to know the person sitting across from you understands that life can be messy, painful and complicated.
My own life has certainly been that.
I've lived with the effects of childhood trauma and spent years understanding the roles of fixer and rescuer that were given to me early in life. I've had to look honestly at how those patterns followed me into adulthood and into my relationships.
I've been a single mother raising twin daughters and experienced all the complexity that comes with parenting, including the teenage years and, later, the surprisingly emotional transition of becoming an empty nester.
I've lived through toxic and unhealthy relationships and had to understand not only what happened to me, but why I found it so difficult to walk away. That journey has become such an important part of my work that I'm now writing my first book,
The Frog Was Never a Prince, about what I learned.
I also live with MS and have personal experience of ADHD and complex trauma.
These experiences don't make me an expert on your life. You are the expert on your life. But they have given me something that professional training alone couldn't have given me.
Outside of work, I find my grounding in playing the drums - the inspiration behind my talk, Diagnosis to Drummer - poetry, reading, meditation, walking my dog Rosie, and being in my garden, especially my roses.
I'm also slowly becoming the mad cat lady and apparently haven't quite finished challenging myself yet. I'm currently trying my hand at improv, poetry slams, and lawn bowls.
Life continues to surprise me, and these days I'm quite happy to let it.
Feel free to reach out and ask me anything
In-person sessions in Seaton, South Australia, and telehealth across Australia
