About Samuel
Samuel Staggs is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 12 years of clinical experience. He works with adults on issues such as anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, grief, depression, and life transitions. He frames counseling as a collaborative process that helps people build emotional control, resilience, and a stronger sense of self.
Samuel earned a master’s degree in Professional Counseling and Human Development from Lindsey Wilson College in 2011.
Background and approach
He has practiced in both public and nonprofit settings as well as independent practice. Those roles exposed him to people from urban and rural areas, Appalachian and multicultural backgrounds, and a range of belief systems. In sessions he uses a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach.
Samuel focuses on practical skills like coping strategies, psychoeducation, and building self-reliance. He aims to support people without judgment and with encouragement. He draws from Client-Centered methods to listen and follow each person’s lead.
He also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused ideas help set goals and find workable steps forward. People reach out to Samuel for help with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, attachment issues, sleep problems, and career or commitment concerns.
He emphasizes small, achievable changes and helps clients work through both current stresses and past wounds.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s needs. The therapist creates space to hear each person’s story and helps them discover their own solutions, which can help with anxiety, relationship troubles, and low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build better habits, which is useful for worry, sleep problems, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samuel will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match goals and preferences. That may mean trying CBT techniques for a few weeks, then shifting toward solution-focused steps or deeper client-centered exploration based on how things progress.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when schedules permit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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