Samantha Mathews

I have been trained in ACT and weave this modality throughout all of the work I do. ACT is values-driven and contextually informed. We work together to identify where you want to go and what is important to you and use that as a guiding light, a motivator to work through the hard stuff - committing to that future you and the healing it takes to get there.

EMDR is an evidence based trauma healing process that uses bilateral stimulation (tapping, eye movements, or tappers) to help process trauma through the lens of our core beliefs. EMDR is incredibly effective and can help those who have experienced "small-t traumas", "Big-T traumas", complex trauma (happy to explain the difference!), or who are simply having a hard time viewing themselves with value and worth.

I use multiple modalities, including narrative therapy, EMDR, CBT, DBT skills, and other letters in the therapeutic alphabet soup of modalities to help process hard events, relationships, and attachments. I also have extensive experience with spiritual trauma and abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, and childhood/attachment trauma.

Abuse is a broad term and can include intimate partner/domestic violence, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, economic abuse, and more. I've worked with hundreds of abuse survivors in all stages of healing, from discovering they are/have been in an abusive relationship, to leaving their abuser, to processing the aftermath. In addition to my therapeutic work, I also run Andrée Collective, a nonprofit working with survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking as they start over.

Anxiety is a beast. I use multiple modalities to help clients who are struggling with anxiety, helping them process the struggles and helping them walk away with real tools to help in the moments when anxiety is the highest. Whether your anxiety is the primary issue or a result of trauma, depression, or stress/burnout, I would love to help. In addition to my therapeutic work, I also do trainings and workshops on anxiety for community-based organizations.

Trauma is inherently unjust. You have to work so hard to heal from something you didn't choose and couldn't control. Many consider PTSD to be hopeless, but the truth is, you CAN heal from your trauma. I use evidence-based approaches (and a little humor) to help you work through old, hard stuff as well as the here-and-now triggers and symptoms that result from the trauma. I have extensive experience working with PTSD and acute trauma from many different backgrounds and would love to help.