Samantha Butler

Samantha Butler is a New York LMHC with four years of clinical experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting struggles, and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing social anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and questions about life purpose.

Her sessions focus on practical conversation and reflection. She listens for what feels most urgent and helps people name the problems they want to work on. Sessions often look like a mix of talking, looking at past patterns, and trying small, real-world changes between meetings.

Samantha uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client’s perspective and build clearer understanding. She brings Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. For people affected by trauma she draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to address painful memories and reactions.

She also uses Motivational Interviewing when someone feels stuck about making changes. That approach helps people sort through ambivalence and find reasons to take a next step. Psychodynamic ideas are used selectively to spot long-standing patterns that repeat in relationships and life choices.

Samantha works with parents who are feeling strained by caregiving and with young adults negotiating transitions. She supports people exploring life purpose and meaning without pushing any particular path. Her tone is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping clients make usable changes in everyday life.

How Samantha’s therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Samantha commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to the person’s experience and helping them find clearer ways to describe their concerns; it can help with decision points and ongoing stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses how past events continue to affect thoughts, feelings, and reactions, and it is used for post-traumatic stress, panic, and trauma-related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their current needs and goals. That process may include trying a conversational Client-Centered way first, then adding trauma-focused or narrative techniques as needed.

Confirm the session formats before booking, since specific formats were not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, reduce commuting time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also let someone choose sessions that better match their energy on a given day, for example a phone check-in when bandwidth is limited or a video meeting for deeper conversation.