Samantha Dehring, LCMSW

I aim to not only hear you, but understand you and help you find ways to expand your own self-understanding. The more you know yourself, the better equipped you will be to effect meaningful and lasting change in your life.

My name is Samantha Rose Dehring, a clinically licensed psychotherapist and master-level social worker, with special certification from The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s Advanced Training in Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and a former Behavioral Health Science Officer in the Army.

After completing Wayne State University's graduate program in 2014, I amassed an eclectic arsenal of work experience and expertise at Henry Ford Hospital’s psych ward; an outpatient methadone maintenance clinic; a residential, intensive outpatient, outpatient and transitional housing drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment center; service with fellow soldiers in the U.S. Army; and caring for patients through various telemental health platforms, including MDLive, as well as my own private practice-Recovery Zone Counseling.
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Prior to graduate school, I dallied in the studies of cultural and transpersonal anthropology, English language and literature, theatre, creative writing and linguistics.
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My strength and highest degree and level of specialization is in psychodynamic psychotherapy, an extraordinarily versatile type of therapy, spanning to include 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. Psychodynamic therapy is a hugely patient-centered form of therapy, which welcomes your thoughts and observations; there are no taboo subjects! It's a relationship and space where you have the complete freedom to explore absolutely any topic--anything at all!
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I work to understand my patients' needs. No two persons are ever the same. What is helpful to one may be unhelpful to another.
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Having participated in my own rigorous psychotherapy as a part of my advanced training, with regular recurring sessions 3-4 times per week for over two years, I understand, intimately, what it's like to be the patient. It can be fun, illuminating, challenging, thought-provoking, intense and a profoundly life-altering experience if done correctly.