About Samantha
Samantha Hughes helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, depression, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, and career uncertainty. Samantha uses a warm, steady approach to make room for tough feelings and practical change.
Samantha is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with seven years of experience. She listens first and then helps clients set clear goals they can work toward. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps as well as understanding patterns that keep problems stuck.
How Samantha works
Her style is caring and down-to-earth. Samantha looks for strengths clients already have and uses those as building blocks. She helps people name what matters to them and crafts a plan to get closer to those values.
Therapy may include talking through past experiences, learning mindfulness tools to manage stress, and trying short exercises that shift unhelpful thinking. She can also use guided hypnotherapy to explore deeper feelings when that fits a person’s needs.
Samantha works with a wide range of concerns including body image, codependency, communication problems, emptiness, guilt and shame, infidelity, loneliness, jealousy, life purpose, midlife crisis, postpartum depression, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Her goal is to help people feel more steady, more in control, and more connected to what matters.
People meet with her for live sessions or messaging options that fit a busy life. She aims to make therapy practical, focused, and hopeful while honoring each person’s pace and choices.
Samantha lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that meet you where you are
Samantha commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy, and she may incorporate Hypnotherapy when appropriate. Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation follows the person’s pace and priorities, with the therapist listening and reflecting so goals come from the client. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood. Hypnotherapy can be used as a guided, relaxed way to access thoughts and habits that feel stuck and to practice new responses.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Samantha will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats this as a shared process and adjusts the plan as progress and feedback come in.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to reflect in writing between sessions or send quick updates. These options allow therapy to fit into busy schedules and different comfort levels while keeping the focus on steady, goal-oriented progress.
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