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Sam Callaway

Compassionate thinking-focused counseling

LPC Texas

Experience
18 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
Languages
English
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About Sam

Sam Callaway is an LPC based in Texas who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strains, parenting challenges, addiction, trauma, and a wide range of life changes.

Background and approach

With 18 years licensed practice and a long background in counseling and ministry, Sam brings experience supporting clients through issues such as intimacy concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, career transitions, depression, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include blended family challenges, communication problems, divorce and separation, and end-of-life or hospice counseling.

Sam draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered approaches to tailor work to each person’s needs. Their style emphasizes respect, empathy, and practical skills - helping clients identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns while fostering personal strengths and meaning.

Sam’s professional path includes extensive time in church-based counseling, training in theology and counseling, and many years addressing family dysfunction, addiction, and abuse in Child Protective Services work. This combination of clinical and pastoral experience shapes a grounded, compassionate approach that aims to help clients find more adaptive ways of coping and clearer direction in life.

Online approaches rooted in collaboration and skill building

Sam uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and shift patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress-related difficulties. CBT emphasizes practical tools and experiments that can reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Client-Centered Therapy is also central to their work and focuses on offering genuine empathy, acceptance, and respect so clients feel heard and supported while exploring values, meaning, and personal goals.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Sam treats that decision as collaborative. Together they will consider the client’s concerns, life circumstances, and preferences to determine whether a skills-focused route, a more reflective client-centered path, or a blend of both best fits the work ahead.

Online therapy with Sam is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions, manage ongoing stressors, and access therapy when in-person visits are difficult, while allowing clients and a licensed professional to work together on concrete goals and coping strategies.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Sam commonly address?
Sam works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, self esteem, career challenges, depression, and coping with life changes.
What is Sam's therapeutic style?
Their approach combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques, focusing on empathy, respect, and practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
How much experience does Sam have?
Sam has 18 years as a licensed professional counselor along with many earlier years in church-based counseling and ministry work that inform their practice.
What credentials and where is Sam licensed?
Sam holds the LPC credential and is licensed in Texas with license TX LPC 65147.
Does Sam work with non-English speakers or international clients?
Sessions are conducted in English, and Sam does accept international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sam offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Sam?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to Sam's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefParenting issues

Also works with

AddictionsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Blended family issuesCommunication problemsDivorce and separationEmptinessFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityJealousyLife purposePersonality disordersPhobias

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Experience

18+ years

Licensed

Texas

Languages

English