Samantha Walsh, Licensed Clincal Professional Counselor
Samantha Walsh is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Registered Art Therapist, and listed provider with the Tourette Association of America who specializes in working with children under 12 and young adult women navigating a late autism diagnosis. Sam provides a creative, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment where her patients can explore emotions, strengthen coping skills, build confidence, and develop meaningful connections with others.
Sam has experience across a variety of clinical settings, including inpatient facilities, residential programs, partial hospitalization programs, special education settings, and outpatient care.
Sam has specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT). She provides treatment and support for children experiencing anxiety, OCD, Tourette syndrome and tic disorders, somatic concerns, emotional regulation difficulties, and challenges with social connection.
Creativity is an important part of Sam’s therapeutic approach. She incorporates art therapy, therapeutic play, storytelling, and clients’ individual interests alongside evidence-based interventions. This allows children to explore difficult experiences in ways that feel natural and engaging while learning practical skills they can use outside of therapy.
Sam has a particular passion for working with neurodivergent girls and women, particularly those with autism and ADHD. As a neurodivergent clinician herself, she approaches this work from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective. Sam helps clients better understand how their own brains work, recognize their individual strengths and needs, develop self-advocacy skills, and create lives that feel authentic to them. Her work may explore identity, masking, burnout, relationships, communication, sensory and emotional needs, and navigating a world that is not always designed with neurodivergent individuals in mind.
Outside of the therapy room, Sam is an artist who loves Japan, video games, theater, and all things creative. She often finds that shared interests can help clients feel more comfortable, understood, and able to genuinely be themselves in therapy.
For clients and families who desire it, Sam can also integrate Christian faith and values into the therapeutic process.
Additional Focuses: · ADHD management· LGBTQ+ affirming
- IL Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (#180008014)
