About Samuel
Samuel Higgerson is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, anger, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
With eight years of clinical practice, he supports clients struggling with parenting concerns, self-esteem and confidence issues, grief, intimacy-related problems, ADHD, and a wide range of life transitions. Samuel brings a steady, nonjudgmental presence and encourages clients to take the first courageous step toward change.
His approach blends evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with acceptance and commitment strategies and attachment-informed perspectives. Samuel aims to create an open atmosphere where emotions and thoughts can be explored honestly, and he collaborates with clients to build practical skills for coping, communication, and emotional regulation.
He works with many additional concerns including caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, codependency, and career-related difficulties, tailoring treatment to each person’s needs. Samuel holds the LCSW credential in Illinois (IL LCSW 149.022321) and provides services in English.
He offers a range of session formats to accommodate different circumstances, and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Combining evidence-based care with online convenience
Samuel often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps clients clarify values and take meaningful action while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore relational patterns that shape emotional responses and to strengthen interpersonal connection and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Samuel approaches that discovery collaboratively. He works with clients to match methods to their goals and preferences, and adjusts techniques over time based on what proves most helpful for symptom relief, relationship needs, and daily functioning.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when schedules change. These options support flexible scheduling and ongoing access to a licensed professional who can teach coping skills, provide coaching, and guide therapeutic work from wherever the client is located in Illinois.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English