About Samuel
Samuel Staggs is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky with 12 years of experience. He aims to help people build emotional self-mastery and stronger coping skills. His approach centers on respect, encouragement, and treating each person as an individual.
Samuel earned a master’s degree in Professional Counseling and Human Development from Lindsey Wilson College in 2011 and has worked in both public and nonprofit settings as well as independent practice.
How Samuel works
Those varied roles exposed him to people from urban and rural areas, Appalachian and multicultural backgrounds, and different belief systems. That range informs how he adapts sessions to each person’s life context. In sessions Samuel focuses on practical skills.
He offers psychoeducation, helps people develop self-control, and teaches coping strategies for stress, anxiety, and grief. He also addresses relationship concerns, career shifts, sleep problems, and issues around self-esteem and identity. He uses the person’s existing strengths as a starting point.
Samuel describes his style as nonjudgmental and supportive. He aims to help people become more autonomous and self-reliant rather than rescuing them from feeling difficult emotions. He emphasizes learning from current and past experiences to move forward.
His work draws on client-centered principles alongside cognitive and solution-focused techniques. That mix is applied flexibly so each person receives interventions suited to their situation and goals.
Samuel lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Samuel works with
The areas below are the ones Samuel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Samuel often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening, empathy, and helping people feel heard so they can explore goals at their own pace. This approach is useful for building trust and working through grief, identity concerns, or low self-esteem.He also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood shifts by teaching concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samuel collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. He adapts techniques over time based on progress and feedback so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and try tools between meetings.
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