About Samantha
Samantha Matesic is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 14 years of practice. She brings a calm, focused style to sessions and aims to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Her work often centers on anxiety, stress, trauma and self-esteem concerns.
Samantha uses practical tools to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also incorporates methods that address how traumatic memories can affect daily life.
Background and approach
The approach is goal-oriented and paced to each person’s comfort level. She has long experience supporting people who have lived through trauma and those with anxiety disorders. Samantha helps clients build skills for managing symptoms and for recognizing links between the body and the mind.
She encourages steps that lead to clearer decision-making and more stable self-regard. People working with Samantha can expect straightforward conversations and concrete strategies. She pays attention to how past experiences like abandonment, adoption or attachment issues show up now.
Other areas she often addresses include body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and dissociation. Samantha practises in Virginia as an LPC and a LMHC. Sessions are offered in English.
To begin, prospective clients follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Samantha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thought patterns and addressing the impact of traumatic memories. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves noticing and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Therapists use practical exercises and between-session practice to build new habits.Another approach she incorporates targets the ways past traumatic events continue to affect feelings and reactions. This method helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and their hold on day-to-day life, which can support better stress management and clearer decision-making.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, and then tailor methods to fit those needs. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust techniques as progress is made.
The biography does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions during breaks or from different locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or phone-only conversations when video is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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