Work with Me
I enjoy helping kids and adults improve their mental health and how they respond to stress and anxiety. When people feel emotionally grounded, they can make choices and decisions that support and promote their overall health. These coping mechanisms allow individuals to feel better and live a more stress-free, enriching, and fulfilling life.
CHILD & ADOLESCENT COUNSELING / EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING COACHING
Samantha is a child and adolescent psychologist who creates a safe environment for kids to explore their strengths and limitations. She helps children and adolescents navigate mental health challenges in a way that allows them feel successful, understood, and validated. Samantha, a former school psychologist, also assists children and teenagers with executive functioning challenges. Through empathy and hands on strategies, she helps kids get organized, stay on track, communicate their needs, and feel good in the process. Additionally, she provides separate parent feedback as part of the counseling and coaching process to help parents support their child’s growth and development.
YOUNG ADULT AND ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Samantha is highly skilled at forming genuine relationships and helping adults change their self-perception over time. Her down-to-earth approach, ability to listen, and knowledge of psychological dynamics allow her clients to feel seen, heard, and understood in a non-judgmental and supportive way.
Samantha is trained in psychodynamic therapy, which enables her to examine family patterns and their potential impact on current behaviors. She also utilizes a developmental approach to comprehend the challenges encountered at different stages of life. By unraveling family dynamics and developmental pressures, Samantha aims to assist each client in feeling better and leading a more fulfilling and purposeful life.
With over 20 years of experience, Samantha specializes in working with young adults and adults dealing with feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, depression, perfectionism, burnout, and imposter syndrome. She also addresses family and relationship challenges, conflict avoidance, codependency, procrastination, executive functioning, the ability to have difficult conversations, and general life dissatisfaction.
PARENT CONSULTATION & COACHING
Samantha specializes in working with parents to address concerns related to their child, teenager, or young adult. As a child and adolescent psychologist and former school psychologist, she has extensive experience in understanding the developmental challenges of children and translating this into practical and effective strategies for parents. Samantha has worked with countless parents around concerns related to their child’s mental health, acting out behaviors, ability to cope with stress and anxiety, social difficulties, ADHD/learning needs, executive functioning challenges, neurodivergence, identity formation and gender issues, global and political anxieties, social media usage, trauma, and many other developmental challenges.
In her work with parents, Samantha highlights the importance of maintaining the connection with the child so that parents can keep their cool, respond more empathically, establish consistency, and use language and key phrases that facilitate growth and development.
