About Sahntanyna
Sahntanyna Blackwell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical work. She practices from a warm, collaborative stance and focuses on practical steps clients can use in daily life. Her work includes concerns such as relationship and family struggles, self-esteem, grief, mood disorders like depression and bipolar, addictions, anger, and ADHD.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people address communication problems, rebuild trust, and handle intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing life changes, parenting strains, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and fatherhood concerns. Her style is respectful and driven by the needs people bring to sessions. Her methods draw on client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused strategies.
That mix lets her balance exploring past patterns with building new skills for the present. Motivational interviewing also appears in her work to strengthen readiness for change. Sahntanyna has worked in New Jersey and New York settings and brings 20 years of experience to her practice.
She adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person's goals and situation. Her aim is to help clients find clearer choices, better communication, and more confidence. People who reach out can expect a supportive clinician who listens first and helps set practical next steps.
She emphasizes collaboration and small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood; it can help with relationship struggles, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for mood, anxiety, and behavior management. Motivational Interviewing is a brief, conversational approach that helps people clarify goals and increase motivation to change, which can be useful for addictions and readiness for new habits.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try strategies, adjust the plan, and pick tools that fit the person's day-to-day life and priorities.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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