- Trauma-informed care
- Anxiety and stress
- Adoption focus
About Samantha
Samantha Matesic is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Virginia. She has 14 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. Samantha writes in plain language and focuses on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Her work emphasizes looking for patterns that shape day-to-day life. She encourages clients to notice how thoughts, feelings, and bodies interact. In sessions she helps people build new habits for thinking and coping that fit their real routines.
Samantha has a strong background supporting people who have experienced trauma and those dealing with anxiety. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, body image, caregiver stress, and concerns related to adoption and foster care. Her approach is hands-on and goal-oriented, aimed at clearer thinking and better decision making.
Therapy sessions blend practical skills with processing past difficulties. Clients practice techniques between appointments and review how those tools worked in daily life. Samantha describes the therapist role as supportive - she rides alongside clients while they take the lead in making changes.
People often come to her wanting more confidence, steadier moods, and healthier relationships with themselves and others. She helps break problems into manageable steps and keeps the work focused on what matters most to each person.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Many of the evidence-based therapeutic techniques Samantha uses focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and processing difficult memories. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches clear steps for noticing thought patterns, testing them, and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) involves guided processing of traumatic memories to reduce their intensity and the emotional charge they carry. Both approaches aim to produce practical changes people can use day to day.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Samantha works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review how techniques are working and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, avoid travel time, and maintain continuity when schedules change. Some formats also let people have shorter check-ins or skip video when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and EMDR elements to remote work so that skill practice and memory processing continue between appointments.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
14+ years
Credentials
Virginia, Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns can this therapist address?
Samantha works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and self esteem issues. She also focuses on adoption and foster care related concerns and attachment difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses practical, evidence-informed techniques that combine skill teaching with processing past events. Sessions often include homework and real-world practice.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 14 years of clinical experience working with people who struggle with trauma, anxiety, and related concerns.
Which credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Virginia. Licensing details include VA LPC and FL LMHC as provided.
What languages are supported and can international clients be seen?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography did not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin the process?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.