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Helping Teens and Adults Feel More Like Themselves

Helping Teens and Adults Feel More Like ThemselvesHelping Teens and Adults Feel More Like ThemselvesHelping Teens and Adults Feel More Like Themselves

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Meet Samantha

Helping Teens and Adults Feel More Like Themselves

Helping Teens and Adults Feel More Like ThemselvesHelping Teens and Adults Feel More Like ThemselvesHelping Teens and Adults Feel More Like Themselves

Help is available, and you deserve it 

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Meet Samantha

About YoungMINDED

YoungMINDED is the specialist therapy practice of Samantha Locke, MA, LMFT, LPC-S, MAC, MBACP (Accred.) and PNCPS (Acc.). With over 25 years of clinical experience, Samantha has supported teenagers, young adults, adults and families since 1999.   She provides personalised, evidence based therapy across the UK and Ireland. 


Samantha brings extensive expertise in child and adolescent development, anxiety, OCD, trauma, ADHD, emotional regulation, family relationships, parenting, academic and learning difficulties, eating disorders, substance use, men's mental health, co-occurring mental health conditions and psychosexual concerns.


 Her therapeutic approach incorporates her Developmental Restoration Approach (DRA), which explores how earlier experiences, unmet developmental needs and learned patterns influence present difficulties. Through personalised, goal focused treatment, Samantha helps clients develop greater self understanding, strengthen emotional resilience and create meaningful, lasting change.

Clinical Areas of Expertise


Samantha works with clients facing complex, overlapping mental health challenges. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, she explores the underlying patterns, experiences and developmental factors contributing to each individual's difficulties. Her integrative approach combines evidence based therapies with personalised treatment to support meaningful, lasting change.


Clinical Areas of Expertise

Therapeutic Approaches

Samantha has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Family Systems Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). 


 Samantha’s work is guided by the Developmental Restoration Approach, an integrative framework she created to understand how emotional development can be interrupted by trauma, neurodivergence, chronic stress, substance misuse or difficult relationships. It helps clients identify unmet developmental needs and build the emotional, relational and practical capacities needed for lasting change. 

Degree & Accreditations

United States Qualifications and Licences

Samantha holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Counseling from Louisiana Tech University, with her master’s degree awarded in 1999. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with telehealth endorsement, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Clinical Supervisor with telehealth endorsement, and a Master Addiction Counselor.


United Kingdom Professional Registrations

In the United Kingdom, Samantha is a Registered Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP (Accred.), and an Accredited Professional Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, PNCPS (Acc.).

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