Samuel Platts

People usually reach out to Samuel Platts when something has quietly broken — a relationship fractured by betrayal, a pattern of use that’s gotten out of hand, or a trauma that has never quite been put to rest. Samuel is a Registered Psychologist based in Edmonton, Alberta, working with individuals and couples navigating addiction, trauma, and the damage that infidelity and betrayal leave behind.

His path to this work was anything but direct. Years on the front lines — in wilderness therapy, youth addictions programs, and Alberta Health Services — gave him close, unglamorous familiarity with how addiction and trauma intertwine. He holds advanced training in Somatic Experiencing for trauma and Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, and is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. He knows what it’s like when a couple’s only real conversation happens over text, the message landing wrong, the tone lost entirely, and both people further apart than before they tried.

What Samuel brings to the room is steady guidance alongside genuine warmth and humor — and the hard-won understanding that no amount of training replaces actually seeing the person in front of him. He has sat in the client’s chair himself, and that shapes everything about how he works. Online sessions are available.