Samantha Marks

Samantha Marks, Psy.D.

Dr. Sam wrote her first book in the second grade, a fifteen chapter novel called "I Fight the Blobbo Bugs" about aliens from outer space. Since then, she has enjoyed anything creative: writing, painting, playing musical instruments, and learning languages. She earned five degrees in Music, Education, and Psychology.

After graduating from Johns Hopkins University over 20 years ago, Samantha worked as a musician, teacher, behavioral therapist for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, writer, and as a special education coordinator before becoming a doctoral level bilingual/bicultural Licensed Psychologist.

Currently, she has her own private practice in Columbia, Maryland, where she sees teens and young adults. Dr. Sam is also Adjunct Faculty in the psychology department at UMBC, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she teaches the class, The Psychology of Sex and Gender, among others.

Therapy clients know that working with Dr. Sam is a pragmatic goal-oriented experience where they are pushed to discover more about themselves and others through cognitive behavioral, dialectic behavioral, interpersonal, and solution-oriented models. Dr. Sam enjoys teaching emotional regulation techniques and social skills to help clients improve their interpersonal relationships and social lives as part of a comprehensive therapy.