About Samantha
Samantha Blackwell helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She is Samantha Blackwell, a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of practice in Ohio. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, career strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She listens closely and helps people name what matters most. Then she uses practical steps to build skills for everyday life.
How Samantha works
Sessions focus on small, usable changes rather than long lectures. Samantha draws on several approaches to tailor care. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and attention to attachment patterns.
She also uses client-centered listening and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation is needed. This mix helps with mood, trauma, and relationship concerns. Over twenty years she has worked with people through big life changes, identity questions, and chronic health or caregiving stress.
Her background includes work with those who have experienced abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and complex medical or caregiving needs. The aim is steady progress you can notice between sessions. Practical matters are part of her work.
Samantha offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She provides services in English and practices in Ohio as an LCSW and an LISW.
Samantha lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Samantha works with
The areas below are the ones Samantha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and clarifies values to guide action; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with intimacy, trust, and relationship difficulties. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals, history, and preferences. Plans can shift over time as needs change. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Samantha offers video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options allow more flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it simpler to keep consistent momentum in treatment.Start online instead of waiting
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