About Samala
Samala Wallack is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with ten years of experience. She focuses on relationship strain, family concerns, low self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety, career questions, and coping with life changes. Samala also addresses compassion fatigue and several related issues that often come up in daily life.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She listens first and helps people set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions include practical strategies people can try between meetings. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other client-centered methods to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Samala has worked in a range of settings including in-home therapy, residential treatment, outpatient care, vocational rehabilitation, and the child welfare system.
That variety shapes how she tailors sessions for each person's situation. Her background gives her experience with blended family issues, caregiving stress, and communication problems. She often helps people facing life transitions such as divorce, midlife shifts, or career changes.
Samala also supports those working on body image, self-love, forgiveness, and multicultural concerns. Her practical focus aims to make therapy useful day to day. Sessions are offered to adults and young adults in Florida.
Conversations are held in English and use an online format suited to each person's needs. Samala guides people through steps they can try immediately, while collaborating on longer-term goals.
Approaches and online therapy options that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people identify their own goals and steps toward them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and needs and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video sessions are useful for more in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or follow-ups convenient without a full session. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with while working toward clear, practical goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Florida
- Languages
- English