Samantha Graham-Douglas, LPC
Missouri · 16 years in practice
Samantha Graham-Douglas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people deal with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and family concerns.
License and registration
- LPC, Missouri
- 2007035322 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1538337159 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Samantha
Samantha Graham-Douglas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people deal with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and family concerns. She draws on 16 years of experience to offer calm, practical support for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. She approaches work in a down-to-earth way.
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on small, usable steps to get there. Samantha treats people as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on during hard moments.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma, addiction, and grief, and she uses methods that match each person’s needs. Samantha uses therapies such as client-centered talk, cognitive behavioral techniques, trauma-focused approaches, psychodynamic ideas, and EMDR to address painful memories and ongoing patterns. During sessions she aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
People can expect a steady presence and practical tools for managing symptoms day to day. She helps people practice new skills between meetings so progress carries over into regular life. Samantha supports people through relationship strain related to family origin, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and communication or codependency problems.
She also has experience addressing first responder stress, domestic violence, dissociation, and substance use concerns alongside trauma work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Samantha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Samantha names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs space to tell their story and build goals at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want practical tools to try between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address difficult memories and reduce their emotional hold. In online sessions this work is adapted so people can process past events safely while still working toward recovery.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, past experiences, and preferences to choose methods that fit. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when visuals help. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins and work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for brief updates, in-the-moment coping, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Samantha works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and family-related concerns. She also supports people facing addiction, first responder stress, dissociation, and body image or codependency issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She offers a down-to-earth, client-centered approach that looks for strengths and practical steps. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on skill practice between meetings.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 16 years of professional experience working with trauma, grief, addiction, and family problems. That background informs a pragmatic approach to managing symptoms and relationships.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Missouri. Her practice is based in Missouri.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Multiple formats are offered to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin therapy?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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