About Samantha
Samantha Synett is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical therapy with warm support. She holds LMSW and LCSW credentials and brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice in Michigan. Samantha uses clear, goal-focused work to help people move forward from painful experiences.
Samantha focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, career stress, and sleep problems.
How Samantha works
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative so people know what to expect each week. In sessions she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered methods, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her match tools to a person’s needs, whether the work is skill-building, shifting patterns, or processing loss and trauma.
Samantha emphasizes practical steps and compassionate challenge. She helps clients set goals, practice new habits, and handle setbacks with clearer thinking and kinder self-talk. When painful histories or attachment wounds come up, she offers steady guidance and grounding techniques.
Her practice also addresses specific topics like body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness work. Sessions can include coaching-style accountability when helpful, alongside clinical care aimed at lasting change.
Samantha lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small, meaningful actions to move life forward despite hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Attachment-based ideas help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and communication, and they offer ways to build safer, more satisfying connections.Picking the right approach is part of the work together. Samantha treats this as a collaborative process and will help you try methods that match your goals and preferences. You may use mindfulness practices one week and skills-based CBT the next, depending on what helps you make progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat supports short check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates or on-the-go reflection. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or treatment commitments.
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