About Samina
Dr. Samina Long is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She brings nine years of clinical experience and focuses on practical support for everyday challenges like stress and anxiety.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and usable for busy people and parents. Her approach centers on listening first and then building a plan that fits each person's life. She works with concerns such as family conflict, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include gender dysphoria, jealousy, and polyamory or other non-monogamous relationship questions. Sessions are tailored to what the individual needs in the moment. She uses clear, goal-oriented methods and helps clients set small, achievable steps.
The tone in sessions is respectful, direct, and compassionate. Dr. Long combines practical skill-building with chances to reflect on values and priorities.
That can mean learning new ways to manage anxiety or trying different communication patterns at home. She aims to help people notice what matters most and make steady changes toward that life. People who choose her often want straightforward tools they can use between sessions.
She supports parents who feel overwhelmed, adults working through relationship concerns, and anyone coping with loss or past harm. Conversations are paced to each person’s needs and life demands.
How ACT, CBT, and Solution-Focused Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what they value and take small actions toward those values. Online ACT sessions often use exercises to notice thoughts and commit to meaningful steps that fit daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote CBT work clients learn practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy aims at clear, short-term goals and quick changes. It works well when someone wants concrete steps and measurable progress in a few sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaboration may combine elements from different approaches and will be adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and varying needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls are handy when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and ongoing messaging supports short updates between appointments. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English