About Sahntanyna
Sahntanyna Blackwell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 20 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, collaborative approach to help people facing relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy concerns, and changes in self-esteem. Her style centers on respectful, practical conversation aimed at small, meaningful steps forward.
In sessions she focuses on real problems like communication breakdowns, rebuilding trust, coping after loss, and managing mood or attention challenges.
Background and approach
She also addresses addictions, anger, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, and parenting stress. Clients can expect a blend of interactive talk and concrete strategies tailored to their situation. Sahntanyna integrates Client-Centered ideas with Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic perspectives.
That means she listens for what matters most to the person and helps identify the thoughts and patterns that get in the way. She also draws on Solution-Focused methods to set clear, achievable goals and on Motivational Interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
She has worked with blended family issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, communication problems, and the fallout from divorce or domestic violence. Her approach also covers fertility and fatherhood issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin wounds. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with scheduling arranged through an initial matching questionnaire and booking process.
Approaches that guide online work
Sahntanyna uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-focused space where the person's priorities guide each session. That approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals that matter to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new, practical behaviors. CBT can be useful for depression, anxiety, mood shifts, and for improving communication and coping skills.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns and goals with the person and together decide which methods fit best. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what the client prefers.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, coaching-style support, or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make regular contact more manageable.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English