Dr. Cindy Stewart-Sampson , LCSW

Cindy K. Stewart-Sampson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who draws on broad experience across school, clinical, and educational settings to support individuals and families facing difficult life challenges. She has combined school-based social work with part-time college and adult education teaching in subjects such as sociology, social work, human services, ethics and cultural diversity, stress management, and assertiveness training. Her background includes preparing home studies for international adoptions, providing home health social work, offering outpatient mental health counseling, working in psychiatric inpatient social work, and consulting on disability qualification matters.

She has substantial experience preparing psychosocial evaluations for special education and has provided dropout and suicide prevention training within school systems. Personal experience as a bereaved mother and as a parent of a child with a chromosome disorder informs her work in bereavement counseling, grief awareness, and supporting special needs parents. Over years of working with students from early childhood through adulthood, including those in foster care, she has developed particular strengths in addressing attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress.

Guided by a faith perspective she does not impose on others, she embraces an "Each One Reach One" philosophy and values the role of connection and compassion in healing. She also appreciates the comfort pets can bring - her Yorkie, Hope, symbolizes the resilience and hopeful presence she aims to offer others.