About Samantha
Samantha Synett is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical therapy with compassionate coaching. She focuses on helping adults manage anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and stress from life changes. Samantha uses clear goals and steady support so people can move forward from feeling stuck.
She draws from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and mindfulness to match each person’s needs. Sessions combine skill-building, values work, and real-life steps that help with sleep, self-esteem, boundaries, and coping with illness or chronic pain.
Background and approach
Samantha has seven years of experience working in varied settings. That background includes helping people facing trauma, loss, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment challenges, codependency, and communication problems.
Her style is empathic, direct, and collaborative. Clients set goals together and track practical progress between meetings. She encourages questions and aims to teach skills that make everyday life easier, like decision-making and assertive communication.
Values such as healthcare equity, anti-racism, and unconditional positive regard shape her practice. Samantha pays attention to each person’s identity and life story as part of treatment. She works with adults who want straightforward, goal-focused support to reclaim energy and purpose.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, concrete steps toward those values while accepting hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling safe with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions include setting goals together, trying techniques in real life, and adjusting the plan as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing accountability, or practicing skills between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and maintain momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English