Samantha Chaplin
Compassionate, skills-focused therapy for everyday challenges
LCSW, LICSW Maine
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Samantha
Samantha Chaplin is a licensed social worker with 15 years of clinical experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, mood disorders, addiction, and major life transitions. She emphasizes practical skills and strengths, guiding clients to rebuild confidence, manage difficult emotions, and develop tools that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Samantha draws on evidence-informed strategies to address concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, sleeping problems, panic attacks, social anxiety, grief, anger, and attention-related challenges. Her approach blends client-centered principles with structured interventions like cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process, inviting clients to explore what works for them while offering clear, skill-based methods for coping and change. Licensed in Maine as LCSW and LICSW, Samantha integrates clinical experience with a strengths-based outlook to help people move from feeling stuck toward concrete progress.
Samantha offers multiple remote session formats to increase accessibility, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She encourages prospective clients to consider practical fit and therapist style when beginning work and supports them in taking the first steps toward more effective coping and improved daily functioning.
Online Therapy Approaches and Practical Benefits
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment, creating a collaborative space where clients set goals and explore strengths and values. This approach helps people clarify priorities and gain confidence in their ability to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill building. It is often used to address anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, panic, and patterns that maintain distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for managing intense emotions and improving coping strategies.
Finding the right combination of methods is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared planning helps clarify priorities and guide which techniques to use in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals from their own locations and to choose formats that feel most practical and comfortable for them.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed
Maine, Massachusetts, Indiana
Languages
English