Samantha is a Psychotherapist who accepts clients 14 and older for individual, couples, and family therapy. Clients describe her as having a mixture of academic knowledge and relational warmth. This means that she is skilled at teaching concepts such as healthy relationship dynamics with a warm, non-judgmental demeanor that allows them a safe place to feel heard and accepted. Clients report that unlike some of their past experiences, all parties feel understood and Samantha even helps them understand each other better. Samantha can connect with both the left brained academic thinkers and the more right brained feelers. She is committed to helping her clients and the community as a whole live a more connected, purposeful, hopeful, and joyful life.

She has been practicing in Colorado Springs since 2008 through individual, couples, and family counseling as well as facilitating addiction recovery groups and teaching classes on CPTSD, attachment and codependence to other therapists, interns, and students. She is welcoming of ALL people, is LGBTQ friendly, and is skilled at poly relationship dynamics. Samantha is certified or trained in the relational and neuroaffective science and healing of PTSD, CPTSD, and Complex Grief, Motivational Interviewing, Neurofeedback, Codependence, Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Exposure and Response Prevention, healthy sexual development and sexual issues in therapy, child development/parenting, and personality disorders such as narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.

Samantha specializes in treating:

-Emotion dysregulation disorders such as depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, anger issues, exhaustion, perfectionism, intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, nightmares, and difficulty recovering from a loss (complex grief)

-Marriage difficulties such as affair recovery, feeling like you are married to a roommate, disrespect, domestic violence, and sexual issues

-Friendship, religious/spiritual, and family relational dynamics including repeated patterns of conflict, betrayal, feeling controlled (or being told you are controlling), and sudden loss of relationships

-Institutional trauma including work and religious trauma

-Problem behaviors such as “out of balance” substance use, disordered eating, anger outbursts, and difficulty being single

-Atypical families, with children or parents with special needs such as autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia, and more

-Frequently feeling uncomfortable in your skin or experiencing dread for no apparent reason

-Difficulty sleeping or having nightmares

-Feeling like you are “bad” or not enough

-Codependence and attachment wounds

-Trauma and complex trauma

If you or someone you love struggles with any of the above concerns or if you have tried over and over to lose weight or moderate substances such as alcohol or marijuana, wonder why your relationships aren’t what you’d hoped they would be, care too much what other people think of you, feel unable to say no to others, or if you are just curious if your life, your relationships, or your inner peace could be better, the first step is to call or text Samantha at (719) 660-1281, or email her at Samantha@theheartmatters.org.

Healing IS possible!