Samantha Thornton

Samantha Thornton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience in the mental health field. She works from Texas and brings a broad background that includes supporting people across age groups and a wide range of concerns in hospitals, clinics, and community settings.

Her work is grounded in helping people who feel stuck find practical, meaningful ways to move forward. She has a strong foundation in addictions, trauma and abuse, and life transitions, and she also supports concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, self-harm, sexual assault and abuse, and process addictions such as gambling, pornography, or compulsive exercise. She is also attentive to the unique pressures faced by first responders, veterans, and those connected to the armed forces, and she welcomes clients navigating polyamory or non-monogamous relationships.

Samantha draws from several evidence-informed methods, with particular strengths in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and EMDR. She also values therapy that makes room for personal curiosity, creativity, and lived experience, inviting clients to describe what they have been through in their own words. Her perspective considers the social, cultural, spiritual, emotional, and historical factors that shape a person, and she approaches therapy as a collaborative process of making sense of life and building a way forward.