About Samantha
Samantha Tatum is a licensed clinical social worker in California with nine years of experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She emphasizes a straightforward, nonjudgmental space so clients can speak freely.
Samantha supports people who want more motivation, confidence, and direction. Her work focuses on practical tools and clear conversation. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and meet people where they are.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Samantha helps people address relationship and communication problems, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her approach is adaptable to the problem at hand.
In sessions she encourages small, manageable steps. Homework and simple skill practice are offered when helpful. The goal is steady progress that fits each person's daily life.
People who like a warm, practical therapist often find her style a good fit. She focuses on clear goals and realistic strategies. Samantha aims to partner with people as they rebuild confidence and cope more effectively.
How Samantha Uses Practical Approaches Online
Samantha uses client-centered techniques to create a supportive space where people can describe their concerns and set goals. This approach emphasizes listening, collaboration, and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the person seeking help.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete strategies people can practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for regulating intense emotions, managing crisis moments, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help with strong emotional reactions and repeated patterns that cause distress.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. Samantha will collaborate with each person to decide whether client-centered conversations, CBT techniques, DBT skills, or a mix makes the most sense for their goals and life circumstances.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill teaching, phone can be a simpler check-in, chat suits brief updates, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and practice. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English