About Samantha
Samantha Blackwell is a licensed social worker with 20 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports issues around parenting, eating and body image, ADHD, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
Samantha works with people facing identity questions and LGBT-related concerns as well as those coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. She uses a somatic-informed perspective alongside talk-based methods.
Background and approach
That means attention to how the body stores stress as well as the thoughts and feelings that come with it. Sessions aim to make coping skills practical and easy to use between meetings. Samantha describes her style as warm and person-centered.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people build skills and notice patterns. Attachment-based ideas help when relationship history affects current difficulties. Her clinical credentials include LCSW and LISW, and she practices in Ohio.
Samantha has two decades of clinical experience and brings that background to sessions without jargon. She offers straightforward guidance and tools tailored to each person’s goals. People can expect focused conversations about real-life problems, attention to body-based signals, and concrete strategies to try at home.
The work often includes noticing patterns, practicing new responses, and building day-to-day coping skills. Samantha frames therapy as collaborative. She helps people clarify goals, explore what gets in the way, and track small steps toward greater emotional balance.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how the body holds stress and tension. In online sessions this can mean bringing attention to breath, posture, and simple movement to help calm the nervous system and notice bodily responses to emotion. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and values, then take small committed actions toward what matters most; it is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and early bonds to understand how those patterns shape current connections and emotional responses.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods suit your needs, goals, and preferences. Expect adjustments over time as you try techniques and notice what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for check-ins between sessions, flexible scheduling, and the chance to practice skills in your everyday environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English