About Samantha
Samantha Synett is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She brings seven years of experience to sessions and uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help clients move forward. Sam combines a direct and empathic style with clear goals.
Sessions aim to identify what feels stuck, build coping skills, and practice small, doable changes. She encourages questions and helps clients set concrete steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with medical and trauma-related concerns, and she has supported people facing major life transitions and caregiving stress. That experience informs how she responds when worry, loss, or chronic health problems complicate daily life. Sam often uses cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thinking and mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies to reduce avoidance.
She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and how those patterns affect emotion and behavior. Sessions are collaborative. Clients help shape the goals and the pace of work.
Sam emphasizes self-compassion, boundary-setting, and building practical tools that fit into everyday routines. Her practice centers on respect for diverse backgrounds and identities. She pays attention to each person’s life story as well as their current symptoms, so therapy addresses both past influences and present needs.
How evidence-informed approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building skills to change patterns of behavior that maintain distress. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fit your situation. This is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted based on what helps most in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging which offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let you work face to face when you want deeper interaction, phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is an issue, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief skills practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, school, or medical appointments while keeping a steady rhythm of support.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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