About Samantha
Samantha Chaplin is a licensed social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and major life changes. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people juggling busy lives. Samantha works from Maine and brings 15 years of experience to conversations about mood, relationships, grief, sleep, and attention challenges.
She focuses on uncovering each person's strengths and building useful tools for day-to-day life. Sessions tend to include goal-setting, skill practice, and honest conversation about what is getting in the way.
Background and approach
Samantha uses common-sense methods so people can try small changes that make a real difference. Her approach blends Client-Centered care with cognitive and behavioral techniques. Dialectical strategies and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolkit when people need support with strong emotions or behavior change.
These methods are used to reduce symptoms, improve coping, and make choices that match a person's values. In practice she listens first and then helps people decide which skills to try. Treatment plans are practical and adjusted as progress is made.
People can expect a steady focus on problem solving and building routines that support better sleep, mood, and relationships. Samantha values clear communication and regular check-ins about progress. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging for ongoing connection between visits.
Her Maine licensure is listed as LCSW and LICSW and she brings those credentials to her clinical work.
How these approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities so the therapist can follow their lead and support what matters most. This helps when someone needs empathetic space to sort out feelings and decide on next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches practical skills like changing unhelpful thoughts and building routines. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and coping skills when feelings become overwhelming. It emphasizes balancing acceptance with change and can be helpful for intense mood swings, panic, or when behavior patterns are causing problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help you choose methods based on your needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made in sessions. This is a collaborative process where goals are reviewed regularly.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video suits deeper conversations and skill practice; phone can be easier with low bandwidth or a busy day; chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins and journaling between visits. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maine, Massachusetts, Indiana
- Languages
- English