Sahntanyna Blackwell, LMHC, LPC

Sahntanyna Blackwell uses a client-centered approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage relationship and family concerns. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. Her style is warm and collaborative and she focuses on practical changes clients can use day to day.

She helps people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and rebuilding trust. She also addresses self-esteem, coping with life changes, grief, anger, addictions, depression, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, and fatherhood issues.

Her work often involves clear goals and step-by-step strategies. That can mean practicing different ways to talk with a partner, identifying thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood, and building small habits that support recovery from addiction or grief. Motivational Interviewing is used to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change.

She draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships shape present patterns. Solution-focused techniques help people name a preferred future and take manageable steps toward it. Sessions are collaborative and shaped to each person’s needs and priorities.

Sahntanyna holds licensure as an LMHC in New York and an LPC in New Jersey. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so clients can choose the format that fits their life. If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.

How Sahntanyna Applies Therapy Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In sessions she follows the person’s agenda and reflects what matters most so clients feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact; she uses CBT to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors that reduce distress. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck about change by exploring values and strengthening their own reasons to move forward.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. The process is shared and flexible rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what works best for them. Video is useful for full discussion and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing reminders and brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently over time.