About Samantha
Samantha Hodges is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Georgia who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, career strain, and major life changes. She works with people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or mentally exhausted and offers practical tools to build confidence and calmer daily routines. Samantha guides clients who want real, lasting change through skill building and clearer self-understanding.
Her style is warm and collaborative, with room for direct feedback when it helps keep progress on track.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on developing coping skills, improving communication, and shifting patterns that get in the way of feeling like yourself. Samantha combines talk-based insight with exercises you can use between sessions. She trained at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology and holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Her background also includes a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Kentucky. Samantha has eight years of counseling experience and brings practical coaching tools alongside clinical approaches. Samantha uses a mix of methods tailored to each person.
She draws from Somatic work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Client-Centered techniques to create a respectful, listening space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also informs skill-focused work on thoughts and behaviors. The aim is to help people gain skills, self-awareness, and new experiences that support steady change.
Samantha emphasizes strengths, boundaries, and self-care so clients can move toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Samantha blends several approaches to meet practical needs and personal goals. Somatic work helps people notice and work with how stress and trauma show up in the body, using gentle awareness and simple practices to calm physical tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person is listened to and supported in finding their own answers.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Samantha works together with each person to choose and adjust methods based on their goals, preferences, and how they respond. This collaborative process helps create a plan that feels useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people hold real-time conversations and practice skills together, while phone sessions may suit those who prefer audio only. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, ongoing support and are helpful for checking in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to access help from home or work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English