Sahntanyna Blackwell
Supportive family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sahntanyna
Sahntanyna Blackwell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical work. She practices in New Jersey and brings a warm, collaborative manner to sessions. Parents and family members often find her straightforward and calm when dealing with tense moments.
Her approach is practical and focused on real-life change. She uses a mix of methods to address relationship and family concerns. That includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic ideas, and client-centered work.
Background and approach
She helps people with communication problems, rebuilding trust, and intimacy-related struggles. She also supports those facing separation, blended family stress, and fatherhood issues. Sahntanyna has experience with mood and attention conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD.
She also addresses addictions, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. Caregiver stress, codependency, and family of origin patterns are part of her focus as well. She offers practical tools like improving communication and setting clear goals.
Sessions often include talk, problem solving, and steps to try between meetings. Motivation and self-esteem work are common themes in her plans. Sahntanyna respects each person’s background and beliefs.
She aims to create a steady working relationship and tailors plans to each family’s needs. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she focuses on supporting that process.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online family care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people clarify goals and feel heard, which can be useful for family and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for mood, anxiety, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether a listening-focused, skills-based, or blended plan best fits the family's needs.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility helps parents fit sessions around schedules and keeps continuity when life is busy. Licensed professionals adapt exercises, homework, and check-ins to work well in each format, so practical tools and supportive conversations can continue even when in-person meetings are not possible.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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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
Next step
Talk to Sahntanyna
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point