Samantha brings a warm, compassionate, and trauma-informed presence to therapy, offering a space where clients feel emotionally safe, respected, and deeply understood. She approaches therapy collaboratively, meeting each client exactly where they are and honoring what has helped them survive and adapt. With extensive experience in higher levels of care and crisis-oriented settings, Samantha integrates strong clinical skills with a grounded, human approach to support meaningful and sustainable change. 

She works primarily with adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating eating disorders and body image concerns, as well as related challenges that often co-occur. Samantha understands eating disorders as adaptive responses rather than personal failures and strives to reduce shame while increasing self-compassion and flexibility. 

Samantha supports clients who are working through: 

• Eating disorders and disordered eating 

• Body image distress and chronic self-criticism 

• Anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and chronic stress 

• Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and intrusive thoughts 

• Depression and mood-related concerns 

• Perfectionism and rigid coping patterns 

• Identity exploration and life transitions 

• Complex or co-occurring diagnoses 

Her therapeutic services include: 

• Individual outpatient therapy 

• Collaboration with families and support systems when appropriate 

• Coordination with multidisciplinary treatment teams to ensure continuity of care 

Samantha’s approach is explicitly HAES®-aligned and weight-inclusive. She does not focus on weight or numbers and does not believe healing comes from controlling or criticizing the body. Instead, she works with clients to untangle shame, challenge diet culture messages, and build a more respectful and nurturing relationship with food and the body, all at a pace that feels sustainable and supportive. 

Her work draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), blending skills-based interventions with values exploration and self-compassion. Her style is structured yet warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative. A guiding belief in her work is that if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now. Samantha helps clients explore new ways of responding to themselves with curiosity and kindness while still supporting accountability and growth. She is committed to supporting clients as they move toward healing and growth.