About Samantha
Samantha Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Michigan who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, depression, and big life changes. She also supports work on relationships, self-esteem, career shifts, and related struggles like body image, codependency, and loneliness. Samantha keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
She listens first, then helps set clear, manageable goals. Clients work on one step at a time while tracking progress and handling the emotions that come up along the way.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and respectful. She leans on a strengths-based outlook that looks for what people already do well and builds from there. That approach can help people feel more capable, less stuck, and better able to meet everyday challenges.
In sessions she uses tools drawn from client-centered work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and hypnotherapy. Those methods are used to clarify values, change unhelpful patterns, and create practical plans for moving forward. Samantha has seven years of experience as a clinician.
She offers live video and phone sessions as well as text-based messaging and live chat for check-ins and ongoing reflection. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Samantha blends client-centered work, mindfulness, and narrative techniques in online care. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's pace to build trust and clarity; it helps when someone needs a safe space to sort feelings and choices. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention exercises and grounding skills to reduce stress, manage mood, and respond to triggers with more calm. Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories by looking at how those stories formed and rewriting the parts that keep them stuck.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Samantha will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a client prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, and ongoing accountability between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English