About Samantha
Samantha Woods uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, addictions, and trauma. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW based in Texas with 25 years of experience. Sam prioritizes simple, direct conversation so people can talk about what matters most to them.
She blends practical techniques with compassionate listening. That means learning helpful skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, practicing emotion regulation tools from dialectical behavior therapy, and using mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life choices, everyday coping, and clearer communication. Samantha has worked across care settings and with diverse life challenges. Her background includes supporting people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, and recovery from abuse.
She also helps with career stress, body image, and substance use concerns. Her style is warm and interactive. She asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps people set small goals they can follow between sessions.
Progress is paced to each person’s needs and situation. Sam offers multiple online formats so therapy can fit into busy lives. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Samantha uses client-centered work to build trust and focus on what each person needs. That approach emphasizes listening, reflecting, and tailoring conversations to practical goals. It helps when someone is sorting priorities, grief, or life transitions.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to teach concrete strategies. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear steps people can practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to strengthen emotion regulation and communication; these skills help with intense feelings, relationship stress, and urges linked to substance use.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options and try techniques that match the person’s needs and goals. Together they adjust methods and pace so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are good for full sessions and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or schedules make video difficult. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when someone prefers writing over speaking.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English