Samantha Chasse (She/her)

Kids. Job stress. They just wont close the kitchen cabinets you have asked them to close 100 times before. I can help navigate the difficulties that come with relationships. Oftentimes, we become ingrained in a process of communication and patterns of behavior, and couples therapy can help us form healthier connections with our partner.

Trauma. Big T, Little t, and complex trauma. Oftentimes, we aren't even aware we have trauma due to our perception that what we've experienced in life is 'normal'. Trauma lives in the limbic system, the primitive parts of our brain that house or fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses. I can help to soothe your limbic system and help you find a new 'normal'. If you're open to it, ART can be life changing intervention. Reach out for more information.

Its lunchtime and the office has ordered food as a thank you for everyone. Coworkers keep asking when you plan to join them. You lie and placate them, but you know it isn't healthy to feel paralyzed by the thought of eating in front of others. Freedom with food and your body IS possible. Using a strengths based, harm reduction approach, I can support you as you navigate eating disorder recovery. Lets explore your relationship to food and body together.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. Im trained to look at the family as a system, seeing how each person is playing a role in the struggles the system is experiencing. The systemic lens is also highly effective in individual therapy as it helps to see how we relate to the world around us. For example, how do we interact with our anxiety and how does it influence how we interact with others.

The ultimate therapeutic technique to attune to the present moment, Gestalt Therapy looks at this moment, right now, and how you experience it. A Gestalt approach will help to increase perspective, bringing past experiences into the present moment through the use of therapeutic experiments. Using Gestalt, I look at the whole person in the here and now, including nonverbal communication, to identify blocks to growth and move through them.

Similar to family systems, couples counseling examines the system that exists in the couple. I use information gathered in sessions to highlight areas of growth and identify communication breakdowns to improve connection and healing for the couples I work with. My approach involves all members as part of the solution as no couple issues is one sided.