About Samaiyah
Samaiyah Fullylove is a licensed professional counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on creating an affirming, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about identity, relationships, and the weight of past hurts. Samaiyah aims to make therapy clear and straightforward so busy parents can follow along on a phone.
Her counseling style is warm and direct. She listens for patterns that keep repeating in relationships and daily life.
Background and approach
Then she helps people practice different ways to respond, so old reactions stop taking over. Common concerns Samaiyah helps people with include issues around sexual orientation and gender identity, shame and guilt, abandonment and attachment worries, and challenges after trauma. She also supports people navigating adoption, foster care histories, multicultural stress, and communication problems.
Samaiyah uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs. She draws from client-centered work to make space for a person's story. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts.
For those coping with strong emotions, she brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. Therapy with Samaiyah moves at a practical pace. Sessions focus on small, doable steps.
Over time people build tools to manage difficult feelings, improve communication, and find clearer direction in life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person says so they feel heard and understood. Online sessions use that same gentle approach to help people clarify values, identity, and what they need from relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions this means identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new responses during and between meetings to change day-to-day reactions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Online delivery allows short check-ins and real-time coaching through text or live chat to reinforce those skills between video sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samaiyah will discuss options and try different strategies based on a person's goals, needs, and comfort. She collaborates with clients to adjust methods until something feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone is good when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep up with progress over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English