About Mariama
Mariama Samateh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 12 years of experience. She welcomes straightforward conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Her style is calm and practical, focused on helping people understand what is happening and what they can try next.
Mariama centers sessions on the person in their life context. She pays attention to how family patterns, past trauma, and current stress interact.
Background and approach
That helps uncover why certain problems keep repeating and what might shift them. Her sessions aim to be nonjudgmental and honest. She encourages clients to use their strengths and to take clear steps toward change.
When useful, she blends ideas from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused techniques. Mariama often helps people identify small, practical tools they can use between sessions. That might include new ways to manage anxiety, handle relationship struggles, or cope with difficult life changes.
She also guides parents who are feeling overwhelmed by parenting stress. She speaks English, Bambara, and Wolof and works with people from different backgrounds, including international clients. Sessions are offered online in a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
The goal is to leave therapy feeling more understood and more able to take the next step.
How Mariama’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. It aims to build understanding and to help people access their own strengths and values to guide change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to ease anxiety, manage mood, and handle impulsivity.Mariama will work with each person to decide which approach fits best. That decision is collaborative and based on the client's goals, current struggles, and what feels most helpful in sessions. The approach can shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions let people access therapy in different ways that fit busy lives. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options give more flexibility for scheduling, for fitting sessions into a workday, and for continuing care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Bambara, Wolof
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