Samantha Dunn, LCSW

Samantha Dunn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in North Carolina with nine years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, ADHD, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her work also covers grief, sleep problems, anger, career concerns, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and coaching for practical next steps.

Samantha helps parents who feel overwhelmed by day-to-day demands and mental load. She uses plain talk and concrete strategies rather than jargon. Sessions aim to identify what's contributing to exhaustion, reduce small daily stressors, and build routines that fit real life.

Her style centers on listening closely and offering tools that match how someone thinks and behaves. She draws from Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's goals and from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change habits. Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing techniques are used when helpful for momentum and focus.

Samantha pays attention to practical obstacles like fragmented sleep, time pressures, and the particular challenges that come with recent diagnoses such as ADHD or anxiety. She also addresses attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and isolation or shame when these come up.

People who work with her can expect straightforward conversations about priorities and small, testable actions to try between sessions. To begin, the usual next step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session so goals can be set together.

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