About Samantha
Samantha Blackwell is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 20 years of experience and works with people facing depression, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. Samantha aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what they are feeling.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She listens first, then helps people set small, practical goals. Sessions focus on building emotion regulation skills, improving communication, and finding ways to cope with day-to-day stressors.
Background and approach
Samantha uses approaches that emphasize values, awareness, and skill-building to help clients move forward. Over two decades she has supported people through major life changes, career strain, parenting stress, and identity questions. She often helps folks who are dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, or the effects of past abuse.
Her work includes attention to intimacy, body image, and challenges such as ADHD and bipolar disorder. Based in Ohio, Samantha holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she also holds LISW in Ohio. She offers culturally responsive care and makes space for diverse life experiences, including LGBTQ concerns and nontraditional relationship dynamics.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Samantha helps people develop small habits that lead to more stability and clearer choices. Her focus is on usable tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Samantha frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take action toward the life they want despite difficult thoughts or feelings. ACT combines mindfulness and practical steps to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful behavior.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test them with small behavioral experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks down problems into concrete steps and skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses so clients can try different ways of working together and keep what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and changing life demands.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
What kind of experience does the therapist have?
Which credentials and location are listed?
In which languages are sessions offered?
What session formats are available?
How are session costs handled?
How do I get started with therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.