About Samayra
Samayra Tavakoli is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She supports clients coping with trauma, relationship and parenting challenges, and identity concerns.
Samayra encourages people who are ready to make changes and try new ways of handling problems. She keeps sessions direct and practical. Samayra asks questions and listens closely, then offers tools clients can use between sessions.
How Samayra works
She encourages small experiments to test new habits and ways of thinking. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her background includes both clinical practice and teaching as a behavioral health science professor.
That mix helps her explain things clearly and bring research-informed ideas into everyday language. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches to teach coping skills and manage intense emotions. Attachment-based and client-centered methods guide how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas also appear in her work when helping people clarify values and take meaningful action. Samayra blends approaches to match what each person wants to achieve. She asks clients to take an active role in their care, including work during and between sessions.
Samayra aims to help people build skills they can use long after therapy ends. Her style is supportive but challenge-oriented, aimed at real-world change.
Samayra lists 12 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
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Samayra works with
The areas below are the ones Samayra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Samayra uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and problem patterns by teaching practical skills to change how someone responds to stress.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This approach helps people notice repeated interaction habits and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit. Over time the plan can change based on what helps most; the work is collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for full sessions and visual feedback. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can help with brief check-ins, homework, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to connect from different places and schedules, and to use the format that best supports each person's needs.
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