Empowering you to feel confident in yourself, your goals, and your relationships.

Samantha Ricard, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Individual Counseling and Couples Counseling
Located in Highland Meadows Parkway | Windsor, Colorado

Imagine a life where anxiety is not in the driver’s seat. Where your relationship feels like an escape from the chaos. Where you actually feel like yourself again.

Maybe that feels like a distant memory. Maybe you have never felt that way at all. Either way, you are ready for things to be different.

Overthinking every little thing has left you exhausted, feeling like a prisoner to your own mind. The constant fights, miscommunication, and loneliness creeping into your relationship have taken their toll. Questioning who you are and feeling like you should have it all figured out, even though you feel lost on where to start, has become overwhelming.

You’ve come to the right person.

I’m Samantha, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and I help women, couples, and LGBTQ+ clients find calm, connection, and clarity in their lives.

I want to equip you with the tools (that actually work for you) to feel more empowered in yourself, your relationships, and your life.

Therapy that actually helps you move forward.

Most therapy approaches for anxiety these days tell you to practice breathing, go on a walk, and journal. And while those things can be helpful, they often leave people feeling frustrated, stuck, and like they are not making real progress.

And, most therapy approaches for couples counseling give you tools, but they miss the nitty gritty of what is causing the issues. This leaves you and your partner feeling good initially, but quickly falling back into old patterns.

Your circumstances are unique, which is why my approach is different.

We focus on the deeper patterns that got you here, the themes that are keeping you stuck, and, most importantly, how to finally break free.

Every step is tailored to you - your life, your relationships, your resources, your struggles - and always with your end goal in mind.

Meet your Windsor Individual and Couples Counselor

Helping anxious perfectionists find peace and couples find joy since 2014.

Hey! I’m Samantha (or Sam—whichever you prefer), and my pronouns are she/her.

I specialize in working with people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, disconnected in their relationships, or lost in their own identity find tangible tools to engage, process emotions, communicate, and feel confident in themselves.

My training in marriage and family therapy, gender and sexuality studies, and somatic experiencing means I have the expertise and experience you deserve from a therapist.

At the end of the day, you want to work with someone who gets what it means to be human and to struggle, to feel stuck, and to crave something better. I don’t just have the clinical training to help you. I get what it is like to be in the thick of it.

I’m here to help you get unstuck for good.

I know what it’s like to have everything look fine on the outside while you feel like an imposter falling apart on the inside. I’ve had anxiety spiral me into self-doubt and exhaustion. I’ve had moments of deep connection in relationships, as well as staying in ones that left me wondering, “What the hell was I thinking?”

So if you’re ready for therapy that’s real, collaborative, and actually helps, let’s get started.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I’m a bit eclectic in nature, pulling ideas from various counseling modalities that will guide us in identifying your thoughts, feeling your feelings, and shifting your behaviors in ways that feel doable for you to help you meet your goals. (If you’re interested in the specifics, I utilize emotionally focused therapy, person centered therapy, and the Gottman method with some cognitive behavioral therapy and somatic experiencing thrown in the mix.)

  • First, we dive into what’s bringing you in to therapy. We will discuss what is not working, what you want to change, and what you hope to gain from work together. We’ll explore your current life, your relationships, and how you spend your time.

    As you share your story, we start uncovering patterns, pinpointing barriers, and shaping clear goals that actually make sense for you.

    From there, we focus on healing the experiences that have kept you stuck while finding real, practical tools that fit your life, not just generic advice that sounds good on paper.

    Then, you take these tools out into the real world. You test them, tweak them, and bring back what is working (and what isn’t), so we can continue refining your path forward together.

  • My story starts with growing up in the Midwest (which really just translates to “steak and potatoes is my favorite meal.”) Although it will always be home, my partner and I traded the plains for the mountains as soon as we could. I’ve adopted the Colorado ways of brewing my own kombucha and hiking at every possible opportunity (so if you have any suggestions of trails with lake views, let me know!) When I’m not with clients you can find me napping, gardening, playing volleyball, falling over in yoga, and taking way too many pictures of my cat, Molly.

  • Schedule your free phone consultation by clicking here.

    Step 1: Book your free consultation through the link above. We’ll chat about what’s bringing you to therapy, what you’re hoping to get out of it, and whether we’re the right fit to work together. Ask me anything—this is your space to feel comfortable from the start.

    Step 2: We meet weekly or biweekly, tailoring therapy to you. No one-size-fits-all approaches here—just real conversations, real tools, and real progress based on what actually works for you.

    Step 3: You start feeling more like you. More confidence. More clarity. More ease in your relationships and in yourself. You deserve that—and I’ll help you get there.

Education

Master’s in Family Studies and Human Services with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)
Kansas State University

Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Kansas State University

Bachelor's in Psychology
Wichita State University

Experience

Eleven years of counseling individuals, couples, and families facing:

Depression

Anxiety

Relationship and communication issues

Life transitions

Gender identity and sexual orientation concerns

Training

Somatic Experiencing Beginner Level 1, 2, & 3; Intermediate 1
Somatic Experiencing International

Foundations of Relating with LGBTQIA+ Clients: 201, 301, and 401
Loving Beyond Understanding

Queer Competency Certification
Embody Emerge

Gender Affirming Letter Writing
Summit Behavioral Healthcare