About Samantha
Samantha Reuther is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers steady support and practical steps for people who feel overwhelmed. Her approach is straightforward and hopeful for those ready to make a change.
Samantha draws on ten years of experience working with mood concerns, addictions, anger, and trauma. She focuses on building a welcoming space where clients can share thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify patterns, set realistic goals, and try new ways of coping. She uses tools from client-centered work to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are introduced to help with emotion regulation and staying present. Samantha also brings motivational interviewing when people are unsure about change. That method supports planning and finding personal reasons to take steps forward.
She adapts methods to match a person’s pace and goals rather than following a rigid plan. Based in New York, Samantha helps people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, social anxiety, and life transitions. She supports people working through addiction and first responder or veteran-related stress.
Her style is practical, compassionate, and focused on what will help most in day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead to make therapy feel relevant and useful. It helps people feel understood and clarifies what they most want to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, which can help with anger, mood swings, and impulse-driven behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work and it will be collaborative. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients are involved in choosing what feels most helpful rather than being given a fixed program.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when that matters most. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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