Samuel Kurkiewicz, LMHC

Samuel Kurkiewicz is a Florida LMHC with 20 years of counseling experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, depression, parenting strains, career questions, and life changes. Samuel also lists coaching and areas like communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, and guilt and shame among his focuses.

He uses straightforward, conversational sessions that center on what the client brings. Samuel draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while also allowing time to reflect on values and meaning.

Samuel prioritizes skills you can practice between meetings. That can include behavior experiments, brief writing exercises, and simple grounding or emotion-regulation tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. He also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationship feelings are central to the problem.

Clients often come with worries about guilt, shame, or regret. Samuel helps people name those feelings, understand how they affect decisions, and test small changes that reduce their hold. He respects each person’s history and focuses on steps that fit everyday life.

To begin, he asks people to identify concrete goals and current obstacles. Early sessions look at immediate coping and patterns that keep problems going. Over time the work can move toward clearer values, firmer boundaries, and more consistent behavior aligned with those values.

Using therapeutic approaches in online sessions