Samayra Tavakoli, LPC
Oklahoma · 13 years in practice
Samayra Tavakoli is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 13 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Oklahoma
- 11271 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1386002087 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Samayra
Samayra Tavakoli is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 13 years of clinical experience. She welcomes people who want practical support for stress, anxiety, low mood, and struggles with self-esteem. Samayra aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions are collaborative and focus on clear goals.
Background and approach
Samayra invites clients to try new ways of coping and to do small practice between sessions to build change. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, eating issues, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing life transitions, career crossroads, and challenges tied to bipolar disorder and depression.
Additional focuses include attachment challenges, abandonment wounds, body image, and communication problems. Samayra draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. She uses ideas from Existential therapy to help people find meaning and direction.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help with practical skills for managing thinking and behavior. Outside clinical work she teaches behavioral health science, which keeps her methods current and rooted in real-world practice. She encourages motivated clients who want to be challenged, try new behaviors, and work both in and outside of sessions to reach their goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Samayra lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Samayra names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approach and access through online therapy
Existential therapy helps people look at meaning, choice, and how they want to live. It often focuses on values, responsibility, and finding direction when life feels uncertain or empty. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical skills for accepting difficult thoughts and committing to actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fit their situation. That process is collaborative and can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from home or work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a short break. Chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching-like support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep up with care around work, family, and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, relationship and family issues, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, career questions, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Sessions blend meaning-focused conversation with practical skills work so clients leave with strategies to try between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 13 years of professional experience and also works as a behavioral health science professor, which informs her clinical practice and keeps her approaches current.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Oklahoma.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to get started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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