About Sahntanyna
Sahntanyna Blackwell uses a client-centered approach to help people work through relationship and family concerns. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - in New York and a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - in New Jersey. Her style is warm and collaborative and she focuses on practical changes clients can apply day to day.
With 20 years of experience, she addresses issues like intimacy-related problems, communication struggles, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also helps people managing addictions, grief, anger, bipolar disorder, depression, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Her work often touches on attachment and abandonment concerns as well as blended family and fatherhood issues. Sessions often focus on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening motivation.
She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Solution-focused techniques are used to set short-term goals and track progress. When deeper patterns are relevant, she draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships shape present behavior.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs support finding reasons to change, especially around substance use or commitment challenges. Treatment plans are adapted to each person’s needs and goals. People can expect respectful, straightforward conversations that aim to make daily life more manageable.
Sahntanyna emphasizes practical steps, clearer communication, and realistic goals. She supports clients through transitions such as divorce, caregiver stress, fertility struggles, and recovery from domestic violence. Therapy can be provided in formats that fit modern life, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Sahntanyna aims to partner with clients to find workable strategies and steady progress over time.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps the client name goals, and supports self-directed change; this approach is helpful for relationship and self-esteem issues.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In sessions the therapist and client identify unhelpful thinking, try small experiments, and build new coping skills for depression, anxiety, and mood challenges.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change. The therapist asks open questions, highlights personal reasons for change, and supports small steps toward recovery from addictions or commitment barriers.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will tailor a plan and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face when that’s useful. Phone sessions are good for lower bandwidth or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help keep momentum between sessions and fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule care around family, work, or other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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