About Samantha
Samantha Tatum is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate the hard moments that come with life changes. She works with people coping with grief and loss, struggles with motivation and self-esteem, and concerns related to ADHD, addictions, and depression.
Communication problems and relationship strain are also areas she often addresses in sessions.
Background and approach
Her practice includes topics like parenting, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Samantha aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they think and feel. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with attention to what feels doable between meetings.
She encourages small, realistic steps toward change rather than quick fixes. Her approach draws on client-centered work and evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas. Those tools are used to help people spot unhelpful patterns, learn coping skills, and try new ways of responding to stress.
Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and how to move forward. People who want straightforward support for anxiety, grief, or big life transitions may find her style a good fit. Samantha meets clients where they are and helps them build skills and routines that fit their daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Samantha uses client-centered work to build rapport and understand each person's priorities. This approach focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what the client brings, which helps with motivation, confidence, and navigating life changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, useful when strong emotions or impulsive behavior get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will talk with each person about goals and preferences and help choose methods that fit their situation. She treats therapy as a team effort, adjusting techniques as needed based on what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues during discussion, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep up with progress between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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