About Samuel
Samuel Higgerson offers calm, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship strain. He emphasizes straightforward conversation and steady support so clients can start making small, realistic changes. Samuel is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in Illinois with eight years of experience.
He helps people talk through parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. Sessions focus on day-to-day problems and skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
The aim is to make therapy feel useful and relevant to life outside the session. Samuel draws from several therapy styles to match what each person needs. He uses techniques that help change unhelpful thinking, build emotional skills, and strengthen close relationships.
He also supports people managing chronic illness, caregiver stress, ADHD, and career transitions. His approach centers on listening first, then trying practical steps together. Clients set goals and Samuel helps break them into manageable actions.
He keeps language plain and avoids jargon so conversations stay clear. Samuel offers video, phone, chat, and text options for sessions. He works in English and practices in Illinois.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment based on availability.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small, doable steps toward those values while learning to live with tough thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, and helps rebuild trust and closeness in important relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Samuel will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs, adjusting as you go. Together you can decide which ideas to keep and which to change, aiming for practical tools that fit your life and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone can work when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text are handy for shorter check-ins, homework support, or fitting brief sessions into a busy day. These options help therapy fit work, caregiving, and other demands while keeping focus on progress and real-world changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English