About Samantha
Samantha Berman-Melendez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship or career struggles. She uses coaching and psychotherapy together to support practical change and clearer thinking. Her tone is direct and encouraging, aimed at people who want usable tools and steady support.
She believes lack of perspective and limited access to resources are often the biggest barriers to progress.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on building those resources and widening how clients see their options. Conversations emphasize practical steps, small experiments, and clearer priorities more than abstract theory. Her work draws on 18 years of clinical experience as a New York-licensed LCSW-R.
That experience includes helping people manage life transitions, grief, addiction, eating or intimacy-related issues, and trauma or mood challenges. She also blends coaching methods for clients who want goal-focused support. Sessions typically look like straightforward conversations with an emphasis on planning and follow-through.
Clients can expect check-ins, problem solving, and homework tailored to their daily life. The approach is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. She encourages a first step of describing the immediate problem and the outcome a client hopes for.
From there she helps map doable strategies and sources of support. Samantha welcomes hearing about each person’s story and practical goals for change.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques in Samantha's work focus on practical skills and goal-oriented coaching. One approach emphasizes building concrete coping strategies and daily routines that help manage anxiety, stress, mood, and ADHD-related challenges; this involves setting small goals and tracking progress. Another approach centers on resource development and perspective shifts to address life transitions, relationship strain, grief, or trauma, using guided conversation and planning to expand options and supports.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques match their needs and goals. She reviews how methods are working and adapts plans so therapy stays useful and relevant to real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which add flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a short break, and chat or text are handy for brief check-ins or follow-up between visits. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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