Samantha Whelan , LPC

Samantha Whelan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 14 years of clinical experience. She paused her full-time practice to raise two children while remaining engaged in professional development through continuing education, and that period deepened her understanding of the everyday stresses and relational dynamics that shape people’s lives.

Prior to her sabbatical, Samantha built extensive experience working with addiction and mental health concerns, offering both group and individual psychotherapy. That work demanded attention to the broad bio-psycho-social impacts of addiction and related challenges, and helped her develop skills in addressing emotional, social, spiritual, physical, legal, familial, and financial consequences that often accompany those struggles.

Her therapeutic style blends several established approaches - cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, client-centered methods, and mindfulness practices - to create practical, collaborative treatment plans. Samantha draws on years of clinical practice to provide supportive feedback, teach concrete skills, and offer tools that clients can use between sessions. She also brings perspective from having been a therapy client herself, which informs her emphasis on empathy, validation, and high standards of care.

Samantha helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family issues, self-esteem concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and parenting challenges, anger, career transitions, mood disorders including bipolar and depression, ADHD, and related life changes. She approaches change as a gradual, shared process, working with each person to identify goals and the behavior shifts needed to reach them, with the client’s priorities guiding the work.