Sam Sharman-Dunn

I currently have availability on the following days:
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

I also have availability for ADHD coaching from March 2026.

My office hours are:
Monday to Thursday 9 am - 5 pm

I am an Integrative Counsellor with 5 years of experience in Psychodynamic Counselling, offering long-term and fixed-term therapy in Leicester City Centre and online.

My role is to provide a kind, safe, non-judgemental, and neurodivergent-affirming counselling space for you to talk through anything that is worrying you.

My specialism is in Autism, ADHD, and other areas of neurodivergence. I am neurodivergent myself, and I have 10 years of prior experience as an Autism Specialist Mentor, supporting autistic and AuDHD students in Higher Education for the National Autistic Society and within the university Student Support team.

I have a certificate in ADHD Coaching (recognised by the Association for Coaching and the Universal Coaching Alliance), and will also be offering ADHD coaching from March 2026.

I work with loss and bereavement, family issues, ill health, menopause, PMDD,  ME/CFS, LGBTQ+, low self-esteem, and self-harm, and I can help if you are feeling anxious, stressed, depressed or just generally stuck in life.

I offer long-term, open-ended integrative counselling, with a psychodynamic focus, in which you are invited to discuss anything that is troubling you. Working together, we can explore your world and any current issues you are experiencing, make sense of present and past events in your life, and discover together how your significant relationships may shape how you experience your world.

I also work somatically, using techniques such as breath-work and EFT Tapping, which can help you to feel more grounded within yourself.

Counselling sessions are 50 minutes long, on the same day and at the same time every week, either face-to-face or online via Zoom, and you are free to end your therapy at any time.

Qualifications:

Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling.

Certificate in ADHD Coaching.

Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling.

Level 2 certificate in Mental Health Awareness.

Youth Mental Health First Aid.

Additional Training and CPD:

Autism Awareness Training with the National Autistic Society.

Self-harm and suicide awareness training with Harm-Ed

Internal Family Systems in Action (PESI)

The Science of ADHD - ADHD Adults UK

Working Within Diversity CPD with Myira Khan

ADHD and Productivity with Dr James Brown.

Understanding and working with Trauma - with Johanne Flynn

Working with Shame - Carolyn Spring

Working with Trauma - Carolyn Spring

Following your initial contact via email, I will contact you to arrange our first session. (please check your spam folder if you haven't heard from me within two working days).

This will be an assessment session, which is different from our usual counselling session and will be either face-to-face or online.

The assessment session lasts for 1 hour and is for you to ask me any questions you have about the counselling process, and for me to ask you a few questions to find out a bit more about why you would like to come for counselling and what you would like to get out of it.

It is also an opportunity for you and me to see if we are a good fit to work together.

The assessment session is £40 and counselling sessions are £55.