Samantha Thornton

Samantha Thornton, LPC, is a licensed clinician with 30 years in the mental health field. She has worked with all age groups and diagnoses across hospitals, clinics, and community settings. Her primary specialties include addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression, and she maintains additional focus areas such as first responder issues, veteran and armed forces concerns, personality disorders, and process and sex-related addictions.

Her clinical practice emphasizes collaboration and helping people become unstuck from patterns that limit daily functioning. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Change Theory, Solution-Focused Therapy, and EMDR while also integrating Attachment-Based and Narrative approaches when appropriate. She values the role of personal history as social, cultural, spiritual, and emotional in shaping experience.

Thornton invites those she serves to use their own words and expressions to explore meaning and change. She frames therapy as a shared endeavor in which clinical tools are matched to individual curiosity, creativity, and life experience, with the goal of supporting a person-led journey toward greater clarity and movement.