About Samantheo
Samantheo Marcellus is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 20 years of experience. She has long worked in mental health and higher education, helping people navigate career concerns, academic stress, and personal challenges. Her approach is practical and person-focused.
Samantheo keeps sessions warm and interactive. She aims to build trust and offers empathy and respect in every meeting. Together she and the client look at how thoughts and beliefs link to difficult feelings and unhelpful behaviors.
How Samantheo works
She guides people to identify solutions that are already present in their lives. Conversations focus on solving current problems like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, parenting strain, anger, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also helps people managing life transitions, career decisions, ADHD, and LGBT-related concerns.
Samantheo treats the whole person rather than just symptoms. She works collaboratively to set goals and explore practical steps toward them. Her style emphasizes dignity, compassion, and finding what works for each individual.
Seeking change can feel daunting, and she acknowledges that courage is involved. She offers steady support and encouragement while people take steps toward a more fulfilling life. If someone is ready to begin, she will help them plan the next steps.
What Samantheo works with
The areas below are the ones Samantheo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Samantheo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. One common approach focuses on recognizing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depressive feelings. This helps with worry, low mood, and self-esteem struggles.Another approach emphasizes building practical coping skills and problem-solving strategies. That work targets immediate stressors like career decisions, parenting challenges, anger management, and life transitions by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new responses.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Samantheo will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people connect face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing communication between appointments. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.
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