Samantha Graham-Douglas
Compassionate trauma-informed counseling
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 16 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Samantha
Samantha Graham-Douglas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 16 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
She brings a trauma-informed perspective to her work and has additional experience addressing issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, body image, codependency, communication problems, control issues, dissociation, domestic violence, and co-occurring substance concerns.
Her approach emphasizes the client as the expert in their own life, and she draws on a range of evidence-based methods to support recovery and growth. Samantha integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside trauma-focused techniques and psychodynamic ideas to tailor treatment to each person’s needs.
She aims to create an empowering therapeutic relationship that helps clients identify strengths, build coping skills, and move toward greater satisfaction and resilience. Clients who choose her can expect a collaborative process that prioritizes their goals and preferences while addressing the practical impacts of life stressors, family patterns, and past wounds.
Samantha works in English and maintains her Missouri LPC credential (MO LPC 2007035322).
Integrating trauma-informed and cognitive work in online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning practical skills to change reactions and behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - helps process traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation, which can reduce the intensity of trauma-related distress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's own perspective and strengths, offering an accepting, nonjudgmental environment where goals are set collaboratively and growth is paced by the client.
Choosing the best approach is part of the therapeutic work itself. Samantha uses an exploratory, collaborative process to determine which methods fit a client's needs, goals, and comfort level, and she may integrate techniques from different models as appropriate. That partnership helps tailor care to what a person hopes to change and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions offer flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work if relocating within licensure limits, and access regular support from home or another convenient location. Samantha leverages these formats to maintain continuity of care while adapting interventions to the online setting.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Licensed
Missouri
Languages
English