Samantha Sutfin, Therapist
Samantha Sutfin, LCSW, provides compassionate and personalized mental health care to adults across California, helping them navigate life’s challenges with resilience and clarity. She offers individual therapy tailored to each person’s unique needs, supporting patients as they work through anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Samantha’s approach is rooted in evidence-based practices like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness, ensuring her clients receive effective and individualized care.
Samantha is particularly passionate about working with individuals facing co-occurring disorders, PTSD/trauma, and severe mental illness. She understands how overwhelming it can feel to manage mental health alongside other life stressors and partners with her clients to break down challenges into manageable steps. Her work with first responders, military veterans, and the LGBTQ+ community reflects her commitment to creating a safe, affirming space where clients can explore their experiences without judgment. Samantha also has extensive experience helping those struggling with ADHD, substance use issues, and eating disorders, ensuring her care addresses both symptoms and underlying causes.
With over 11 years of experience in community mental health, Samantha’s practice is shaped by a holistic, client-centered philosophy. She collaborates with clients to improve communication, set healthy boundaries, and develop practical coping strategies. Whether someone is navigating postpartum depression, grief, or midlife transitions, Samantha empowers her clients to rediscover their strengths and build a more fulfilling life.
Outside of her professional life, Samantha enjoys hot yoga, traveling with her family to new destinations, trying different cuisines, and baking. These personal passions reflect her belief in the importance of balance and self-care, values she brings into her therapeutic practice.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Individual Therapy: Ages 18-64
Areas of Focus
Individual Therapy
Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.
- ADHD
- Attention & focus
- Ethnic identity
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- Ability status
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Autism: generally independent
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Career & relationships (mid-life)
- Career & work issues
- Depression/feeling down
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- Eating issues: binging
- Emotional abuse
- Empty nesters
- Family conflict
- First responder stress
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gambling
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hoarding
- Immigration/cultural status
- Intellectual challenges: generally independent
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Military & veteran
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Parenthood
- PMS & PMDD
- Pornography/sexual behaviors
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- Self-esteem
- Self-injury or cutting
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Social injustice
- Social skills & communication
- Stress from ongoing health issues
- Stress management
- Unhealthy eating habits
- Video game/internet
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Lakeside Medical (Regal Medical)
- Lucet (SCAN Health Plan)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
Languages
- English
Education
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University of Southern California
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Frequently Asked
Questions
Please call us at 925-282-1778 to schedule an appointment with Samantha Sutfin.
Samantha Sutfin generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 925-282-1778 to find out Samantha Sutfin's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Samantha Sutfin:
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Lakeside Medical (Regal Medical)
- Lucet (SCAN Health Plan)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 925-282-1778 to see how we can help.
Samantha Sutfin is a Therapist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Samantha Sutfin works at:
Yes, Samantha Sutfin does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Samantha Sutfin is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: