About Samuel
Samuel Staggs is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky with 12 years of clinical experience. He earned a master’s degree in Professional Counseling and Human Development and has worked in both public agencies and independent practice. Samuel draws on a long history of varied life and work experiences to relate to people from different backgrounds.
He aims to help clients build emotional mastery and a stronger sense of self.
Background and approach
Samuel meets people where they are without judgment. He focuses on practical skills like coping strategies, self-control, and psycho-education. Sessions emphasize encouragement, unconditional positive regard, and using each person’s strengths.
He describes his role as guiding clients rather than rescuing them from their feelings. In practice Samuel uses a mix of approaches tailored to the individual. He incorporates client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person.
He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. He works with a broad range of concerns, including relationship struggles, grief, career transitions, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, self-esteem issues, depression, sleep problems, and LGBT-related concerns.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and commitment problems, and coping after disasters. Sessions aim to be collaborative and strengths-focused. Samuel helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time.
He welcomes people who want practical guidance and steady support while they navigate life changes.
How Samuel Uses Practical Approaches Online
Samuel combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people make concrete changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following what matters most to the person so goals come from the client's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Samuel will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and past efforts, then suggest a mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new concerns appear.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, quietness levels, and communication preferences.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English