Samantha Karrel, LCSW
Psychotherapist located in KP Counseling at Uptown Psych, Chicago, IL

Meet Samantha Karrel, LCSW

Samantha Karrel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker possessing more than 15 years’ experience providing therapy for children, adolescents and adults. Samantha draws from a breadth of evidence-based practices and trainings to address a patient’s specific concerns and personality.  Samantha’s expectation of the therapeutic experience is that you not only feel safe and supported but that you also experience real change. She specializes in helping people heal and recover from trauma and adverse life experiences. Additionally, Samantha is skilled in helping people who are experiencing anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizoaffective disorder, life transitions and challenges.  She is practiced in working with people who identify as members of the queer community and transgendered persons. She is sensitive and responsive to the historic and institutional traumas impacting queer, BIPOC and other historically marginalized and oppressed peoples.

Samantha is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She completed a year-long training under the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative and has specific training in addressing sexual and domestic violence.

Prior to joining KP Counseling. Samantha worked as director for a community mental health, and as a therapist in public schools, psychiatric medical facilities and nonprofits supporting children at risk and in foster care.

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