About Samantha
Samantha Dunn is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting strain, self-esteem, and life changes. She offers a calm, validating presence for people who feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. Her style is practical and warm, aimed at helping people feel more steady in daily life.
Samantha listens first to understand what is draining you. She helps identify small, doable changes that fit into a busy routine.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through emotions, building coping skills, and making plans that match the way your mind and days actually work. Her methods draw on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and trauma-focused care. These approaches are used to address sleep problems, grief, anger, relationship stress, and mood concerns in concrete ways.
She also supports people managing ADHD, postpartum changes, and caregiver strain. With nine years of experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Samantha blends practical tools with steady emotional support. She pays attention to family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and attachment concerns while keeping sessions focused and manageable.
People meet her for career stress, social anxiety, and problems with impulsivity or isolation. She helps unpack guilt and shame, and works toward clearer routines and better self-care. The aim is to leave sessions with one clear next step you can try between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Samantha uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people learn skills that change how they feel and act. Client-centered work means sessions focus on the person in front of her, listening and responding to what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps break down thoughts and routines that keep problems going and replaces them with practical experiments and small behavior changes.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help with stress, sleep, and anxiety by teaching simple attention and breathing practices. These approaches are chosen to match the issue at hand and the individual’s preferences. Samantha treats finding the right approach as a team effort - she will work with the person to try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be an easier fit when bandwidth or having the camera on is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, jotting down coping ideas, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or other obligations while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English