Samayra Tavakoli , LPC

Samayra Tavakoli is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. She also supports those coping with trauma, eating concerns, relationship and parenting stress, and identity-related challenges including LGBT matters.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about their thoughts and feelings. Samayra asks questions and listens closely to help clients identify small steps they can try between sessions. She encourages an active role in therapy and uses practical exercises that fit into everyday life.

Samayra blends approaches such as acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She uses these tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and build skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping with life changes.

She describes herself as someone who values learning and teaching, and she brings that perspective into sessions. Clients who are motivated to try new strategies and accept gentle challenge tend to do well with her style.

Samayra works with a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, relationship and communication problems, codependency, grief, and trauma-related difficulties. She offers sessions in English and is available to international clients through online formats.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions that move life in the direction a person wants. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence present connections and communication. It helps people understand their attachment style and practice new ways of relating to partners and loved ones. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to find practical changes. It gives clear exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build healthier habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then use techniques from these approaches that fit best. Clients often try a mix of ideas and adjust as they learn what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send messages between sessions, use brief check-ins, or follow up on homework. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practice going between appointments.