Samantha Dehring

With advanced training and certification from The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s Advanced Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, I bring a wealth of expertise to my practice. I hold a Master’s in Clinical Social Work and am certified in Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counseling. My experience is further enriched by service as First Lieutenant Behavioral Health Science Officer in the U.S. Army’s Medical Detachment. I offer you compassionate and effective therapy tailored to your unique needs.

Therapy is a beautifully personal relationship. People express themselves in unique ways, and only an individually chosen response will do. I am caring and appreciative of my clients' frames of reference, the content of their hearts and boundaries which keep them safe and protected when they are emotionally vulnerable.

My strength and highest degree and level of specialization is in psychodynamic psychotherapy, an extraordinarily versatile type of therapy, which includes elements of a multitude of approaches, and of those, gradually creates a combination which fits a patient’s developmental and emotional needs and challenges best. Generally, my patients benefit from a more sophisticated understanding of their motivations and drives, and clarify their value systems.