About Samantheo
Samantheo Marcellus is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with two decades of experience in mental health and higher education settings. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, career concerns, self-esteem, and relationship and intimacy issues. Her approach is warm and interactive, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
She centers sessions on building trust and treating each person with respect and dignity.
Background and approach
Samantheo listens for the thoughts and beliefs that lead to painful feelings or unhelpful behaviors. Then she helps people name small changes they can try and notice what shifts in their day-to-day life. Her background includes academic and career counseling, so she often helps people who are juggling work, school, and life transitions.
She also provides support around parenting challenges, anger, and ADHD-related concerns. The goal is to work from a whole-person perspective, not only a list of symptoms. Samantheo keeps sessions collaborative.
She invites clients to bring their goals and priorities, and she offers tools and questions to test new ways of coping. Meetings tend to be practical, paced to the individual, and focused on real-life steps between sessions. Seeking change can feel daunting, and she frames the work as a process people take together.
Samantheo aims to empower clients to try manageable strategies and to build on their existing strengths.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Samantheo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thoughts, feelings, and behavior. One approach helps people identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts that feed anxiety and low mood, then practice small behavior changes that reduce distress. This method is useful for stress, worry, and depression because it targets daily patterns that keep problems stuck.Another approach centers on skill-building for emotion regulation and problem solving. It teaches concrete strategies for managing anger, coping with life changes, and handling relationship or parenting stress. These techniques emphasize step-by-step practice and real-world application between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantheo collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, daily demands, and comfort with different tools. She adjusts plans over time based on what is helpful and what feels doable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper exploration is needed. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to get brief support, jot down thoughts, or follow up between appointments. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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