Samantha Toney, LMFT

Samantha Toney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. As an LMFT Samantha brings a systems-oriented perspective to her work - a background that supports her ability to help individuals, couples, and families navigate emotional and relational challenges. She has extensive experience addressing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance use concerns, and trauma, and she often helps people develop practical coping strategies to reduce symptoms and restore balance in daily life.

Samantha’s practice emphasizes strengths-based care. She helps people uncover strengths that may have been overshadowed by stressors, build new skills, and create routines that protect against future crises. Her work includes support for relationship and family issues, grief, parenting and intimacy-related concerns, as well as career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include body image, family of origin issues, multicultural concerns, and women’s issues.

Samantha combines evidence-informed approaches with collaborative goal setting to help each person move toward a life that feels more manageable and aligned with their values. She works with people at different stages of change, tailoring interventions to what each person needs in the moment and over time.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care

Samantha uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress and supports problem-solving and mood regulation.

She also incorporates Motivational Interviewing, a collaborative, goal-oriented style that helps people strengthen their own motivation to change. This approach is particularly useful for addressing ambivalence around substance use, behavior change, and steps toward recovery.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Samantha works collaboratively with each person to select or blend methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. The therapist-client relationship guides which techniques are emphasized and when.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity of care during transitions, and access support when in-person visits are not convenient. Licensed professionals can adapt their methods effectively through these formats to help clients move toward their goals.