About Samantha
Samantha Hodges is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Georgia who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, career strains, relationship difficulties, and life transitions. She writes plainly and offers practical tools for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or exhausted. Her goal is to help clients build confidence, clarity, and lasting change through steady work and self-understanding.
She uses a warm, collaborative style and can be direct when it helps keep progress on track.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skill building, increasing self-awareness, and creating habits that support new ways of thinking and living. Samantha combines coaching elements with counseling to address mindset and behavioral changes. Samantha earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Kentucky and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology.
She brings eight years of professional experience to her practice as an LPC in Georgia. Her work draws from several therapeutic approaches, including acceptance and commitment strategies, client-centered techniques, and cognitive behavioral tools. She also incorporates mindfulness, existential reflection, and Jungian ideas as they fit the client's goals.
Many sessions include hands-on skills like assertiveness, boundary setting, grief support, and stress management. Samantha can use a direct coaching tone for goal-oriented work or a supportive therapeutic stance for deeper emotional processing. She emphasizes strengths while helping clients strengthen areas they want to change.
How Samantha Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when worries, avoidance, or confusion block life goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, empathic relationship where the client sets the pace and goals, which can support self-exploration and confidence building.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Samantha will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She often blends methods so work is practical and personally meaningful, adjusting over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try new strategies without needing to travel.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English