Samantha Matesic

Samantha Matesic is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Virginia with 14 years of experience. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns, and helps people notice repeating patterns that affect their choices and day-to-day life.

Samantha combines practical, evidence-based techniques to address symptoms and underlying issues. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and learning new ways to respond. She also brings experience helping people process traumatic memories and reduce their ongoing impact.

People often come when they feel stuck after a life change or unsure what matters next. Samantha talks through how past relationships and attachment patterns shape current trust and connection. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care history, and attachment issues.

She works with anxiety presentations and related experiences like dissociation, avoidant or dependent personality patterns, codependency, body image concerns, and caregiver stress. Practical skills for managing worry and stronger communication habits are common parts of her sessions.

Samantha asks straightforward questions and offers concrete practices to try between meetings. She uses short-term tools and longer work on patterns, depending on what each person needs. To begin, she asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first session so treatment goals can be clarified together.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Samantha often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and gives short exercises to practice between sessions. This can help with anxiety, low mood, and decision-making struggles.

She also includes trauma-focused methods to address memories and body-based reactions that follow traumatic events. These approaches help reduce the grip of painful memories and teach ways to tolerate distressing sensations without being overwhelmed.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Samantha discusses goals and preferences, then suggests techniques to try. Clients and therapist adjust methods over time based on what is most useful and manageable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow a shorter check-in when needed, or remove travel time so therapy fits a lunch break. Licensed professionals use these formats to focus on skills practice, reflection, and planning steps that carry into everyday life.