About Samantha
Samantha Matesic is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor practicing in Virginia. She brings 14 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem challenges. Samantha aims to help people notice patterns in their lives and make practical changes that feel meaningful.
Samantha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma and anxiety. She helps clients learn ways to change unhelpful thoughts and to pay attention to how the body and mind interact.
How Samantha works
Sessions tend to focus on building awareness and practical skills that can be used between meetings. Clients who have experienced abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, attachment concerns, or dissociation often find central topics to work on in therapy with her. Other areas she addresses include codependency, communication problems, body image, caregiver stress, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person. Samantha describes her role as accompanying people as they practice new ways of thinking and managing strong feelings. She supports clients as they build confidence and clearer decision-making.
People choosing therapy with Samantha should expect straightforward conversations and concrete tools to try outside sessions. To begin, readers can use the site Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments according to availability.
What Samantha works with
The areas below are the ones Samantha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Samantha commonly uses approaches that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and on processing traumatic memories. Cognitive behavioral methods help people identify and shift patterns of thinking and behavior that keep anxiety or low self-esteem in place. These methods teach practical skills for managing stress and for handling everyday triggers.She also uses trauma-focused processing techniques that help people address the effects of past harmful experiences. These approaches break difficult memories into manageable steps so clients can reduce the intensity of distress and regain control over daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning may include trying different techniques and adjusting based on what feels most helpful.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a full session is not required. Talk with the therapist about scheduling and format options to find what fits your routine.
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A practical next step
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