About Me
About Samantha Chater Therapy
I’m a counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist working with adults across Altrincham (WA15), Sale (M33), Manchester (M31), as well as online and by telephone.
I work with people who find themselves in life’s tougher and more uncertain chapters – grief that feels impossible to put into words, anxiety that keeps you up at night, identity changes that leave you wondering who you are now, health issues that have altered how you feel in your own skin, relationship shifts that have knocked your confidence, and those quiet moments where you suddenly realise you’ve been lost in the background of your own life.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone and you don’t have to keep carrying it all by yourself.
Before training as a counsellor, I spent over a decade working as a therapist in private practice while raising my family and running a bump and baby business. I know what it’s like to hold a lot at once, to be the one who keeps showing up for everyone else, even when you’re running on empty.
That’s why the space we create together matters. This is your time to lay it all down. No judgement. No pressure to “fix” things overnight. Just a safe, steady place to be heard, make sense of what’s been happening, and take small, manageable steps back towards yourself.
Because you don’t have to keep holding everything together on your own anymore.
How I Work
Some people want a place to talk and make sense of things. Others are curious about working more subconsciously with hypnotherapy to manage anxiety or shift long-held habits. We can talk it through and decide together.
My style is calm, warm, and down-to-earth. I won’t rush you or try to ‘fix’ you. I see therapy as a space to slow down, get curious, and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been put aside for a while.
Therapy isn’t about having it all together. It’s about meeting yourself where you are, even if that place feels foggy, messy, or uncertain. If you're ready to explore what’s going on beneath the surface, or even if you're just wondering whether therapy might help, you’re welcome to get in touch.
I’ve supported:
- Unpaid carers at Trafford Carers, who often feel overlooked and emotionally stretched
- Bereaved clients through Cruse Bereavement Support, offering space to sit with grief without needing to fix or explain it
- Employees at Pladis UK (McVitie’s, Jacob’s) through hypnotherapy for anxiety, stress, low mood, managing long-term health conditions and self-confidence
Each of these roles has deepened my understanding of how life can chip away at you and how powerful it can be to have a space to be heard.
“Sometimes we don’t even realise how much we’ve been carrying — until we sit down and say it out loud.”
Samantha Chater
Professional membership and insurance
- Registered Member with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Fully insured, supervised, and committed to ethical practice
- Enhanced DBS
Training and Qualifications
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - person-centred counselling, CBT, Transactional Analysis (TA)
- Certificate in Counselling Skills Level 3
- Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Walk and Talk Therapy
- Mindfulness and Meditation
- Safeguarding Adults and CYP
- Working with Suicide and Self-Harm
- Cruse Bereavement Training
- Dr John Wilson’s Working with Bereavement
- Working with Trauma
- Online and Telephone Counselling
- IEMT (Integrated Eye Movement Therapy)
- Solution Focussed Therapy
- Rewind Technique
- NLP
- Hypnosis for Long Covid and Long-Term Health Conditions
- Hypno-oncology - Cancer Support with Hypnotherapy
- Menopause Recovery Programme
- 3rd Age Woman Course
- Oldpain2Go