- Goal focused
- Mindfulness tools
- Narrative work
About Samantha
Samantha Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with seven years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, eating and food-related concerns, depression, and life changes. Her practice also addresses relationship strain, self-esteem, career worries, and feelings of guilt and shame.
Samantha uses a goal-focused approach. She helps people name specific goals and creates a practical plan to move toward them. Sessions look at your history to understand how you arrived at this point and then focus on the steps that help you make change.
Her style centers on listening and building on strengths people already have. She encourages clients to identify helpful skills and preferences, then practices ways to use those strengths in daily life. That often means pairing talk with short exercises to try between sessions.
Samantha blends client-centered ideas with narrative practices and motivational interviewing. She also uses mindfulness techniques and hypnotherapy as tools some people find useful for anxiety, grief, or patterns around eating and self-image. She explains each tool and checks whether it fits a person's goals before using it.
She offers ongoing messaging in addition to live sessions so people can reflect between appointments. Messaging is used like collaborative journaling to track progress and process thoughts outside session time. To begin, readers complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the platform.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, clarifying what matters to you, and matching the pace to your needs. Online sessions let those conversations continue in regular, scheduled meetings and through written reflections between visits.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from unhelpful stories and try new ways of telling those stories. In remote sessions this can include writing exercises or guided reflection that you bring back to talk through together.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. Those exercises are shared in session and can be practiced between appointments to manage anxiety, guilt, or eating-related urges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will collaborate with each person to pick tools that match their goals and preferences. She explains options, checks how they feel in practice, and adjusts the plan based on feedback.
Her practice includes live sessions plus asynchronous messaging, which functions like collaborative journaling to track progress and reflect between meetings. If you need other session formats, confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and give space for written reflection outside of scheduled appointments.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Michigan
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Samantha supports adults with stress, anxiety, grief, eating and food-related issues, depression, and life changes. She also works with relationship strain, self-esteem, career questions, and feelings of guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses a goal-oriented, client-centered approach that looks at your history and current patterns. That includes narrative techniques and practical exercises to shift how you understand and respond to those feelings.
What is her professional background?
She has seven years of experience working as a counselor and has helped people with a wide range of issues across that time.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan.
Does she work in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The biography mentions live sessions and asynchronous messaging throughout the week. Confirm current session options before booking.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.