Samantha Blackwell, LCSW, LISW
Compassionate guide for life's difficult transitions
Details
| Name | Samantha Blackwell |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW, LISW |
| Based in | Ohio |
| Licensed in | Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 20 |
About Samantha
Samantha Blackwell is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She works with individuals facing career strain, parenting pressures, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Samantha brings an affirming, nonjudgmental stance to sessions and focuses on practical steps that can ease day-to-day life.
Her style is conversational and collaborative. Sessions center on the client's stories and values, and she uses a mix of narrative techniques and evidence-informed methods to shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Samantha helps people name difficult experiences, reframe limiting stories, and try small experiments between sessions. She combines Narrative Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral tools to address thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at relationship and intimacy issues.
Client-centered listening guides the pace and goals of work. Originally trained as a social worker, Samantha holds LCSW and LISW credentials and practices in Ohio. Her approach aims to be culturally aware and responsive to people from diverse backgrounds.
She supports those coping with life changes such as adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and career transitions. Samantha offers a steady, practical way to sort through tough feelings and make changes that fit real life. She helps clients build emotional skills, test new ways of relating, and move toward clearer values and goals.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse among the things Samantha works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Systemic Therapy: Listed by Samantha among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Samantha directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Samantha directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Approaches to change in online sessions
Samantha often draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. This approach looks at how personal narratives shape choices and emotions and helps create alternative, more helpful stories for handling stress, identity questions, relationships, and life transitions.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking practical action even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with chronic health or caregiving stress.
Attachment-based ideas inform her work on intimacy and relationship patterns by looking at how early bonds influence current trust and closeness. Together these approaches offer ways to rethink problems and practice new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as work progresses. Clients help decide which techniques feel useful and which should be changed.
Online therapy makes it practical to fit care into a busy life. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and deeper exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, and written reflections between appointments. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and needs.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Samantha focus on?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, parenting and career challenges, among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and conversational, with an emphasis on listening to each person's story and working together to set goals and try practical steps between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has two decades of clinical experience working with adults on emotional, relational, and life transition issues.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and practices in Ohio.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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