Samantha Synett

Samantha Synett is a licensed clinical social worker who blends clinical care with a coaching mindset to help people regain direction. She holds the LMSW and LCSW credentials and brings seven years of experience working with adults in their twenties and thirties.

Samantha focuses on practical steps that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes, and addresses concerns like self-esteem, sleep problems, relationship friction, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people coping with cancer, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and the complicated feelings that come with loss.

Her style is empathic, direct, and goal-oriented. Sessions tend to be collaborative: the client and Samantha set goals together, identify stuck points, and try manageable strategies between meetings. She combines evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, and attachment-based work with coaching skills like accountability and decision support.

Across her career she has supported people from varied backgrounds, including service members, Veterans, oncology and hospice patients, and college students. That experience informs how she talks about trauma, complicated grief, and adjustment challenges without assuming one path fits everyone.

Samantha emphasizes self-advocacy and inclusion in her approach. She invites questions, encourages people to bring their whole identity into sessions, and aims to help clients move from surviving to living more fully.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Samantha uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy as core tools. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to ease symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on values and action - helping clients clarify what matters and take small steps toward those goals while noticing difficult feelings.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Samantha will work with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That plan can change as work moves forward and as needs become clearer.

Practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling and fitting sessions into a busy week. Online work can make it simpler to maintain momentum between appointments and to practice skills where daily life happens. Session format details are not listed here, so confirm current session options before booking to know how meetings are conducted and which format will best fit your routine and needs.