About Samuel
Samuel Staggs is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 12 years of clinical experience. He earned a master’s degree in Professional Counseling and Human Development and has worked across public agencies and independent practice. Samuel focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strains, and career or life transitions.
He also addresses issues related to trauma and abuse, sleep problems, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Samuel draws on a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s experience central.
Background and approach
He combines practical tools and simple education to help people name feelings and gain more control over them. Sessions move at a steady pace tailored to what each person needs that week. He often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is stuck or unsure about change, and solution-focused work aims at concrete next steps. These approaches are blended to match the client’s goals rather than following a rigid plan. Samuel aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental tone in sessions.
He talks plainly about symptoms and strategies, and encourages people to try small experiments between meetings. The work focuses on building skills - coping, communication, and decision-making - so people feel more capable in daily life. People choose Samuel when they want steady, practical support through confusing or painful times.
He offers straightforward coaching alongside therapy to help people move toward clearer choices and greater emotional balance.
How practical approaches translate to online care
Samuel uses client-centered methods that focus on what matters to the person in front of him. In this approach he listens closely, reflects what he hears, and helps clients set goals that feel relevant to their daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Samuel will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. He adjusts the mix of listening, skill-building, and short homework based on how someone responds over several sessions, so the plan evolves with progress.
Online formats make that collaborative work easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper check-ins. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give quick access for brief coaching, progress updates, or to work through a skill between sessions. Together these options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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