About Samantha
Samantha Murphy is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. She brings a calm, straightforward style and aims to make conversations feel relaxed and clear for busy people and worried parents. She focuses on practical, day-to-day coping skills.
Sessions center on the client’s goals and what is useful right now. Samantha listens closely and helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and check what works for them.
Background and approach
With four years of professional experience as a Minnesota LICSW, she has supported people through trauma and abuse, relationship and family problems, and struggles with self-esteem and impulsivity. She also works with concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation. Samantha uses several straightforward methods in her work.
She draws on client-centered conversation to follow each person’s lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness to build attention and calm. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools guide practical next steps and short-term goals. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Information about subscription-based session costs and scheduling is provided when someone begins the matching process.
How Samantha’s Approaches Work Online
Samantha often combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify what matters to them and then change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Client-centered work means conversations follow the person’s concerns and priorities. Cognitive behavioral work breaks problems into small, testable steps to try between sessions.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm and improve focus. Mindfulness can help with anxiety, stress, and difficulties with impulsivity or attention by training moment-to-moment awareness and calm.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, and then suggest which methods to try first. She checks in regularly and adapts techniques if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework, or when fitting therapy into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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