Samantha Berman-Melendez
Practical support for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW-R
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Samantha
Samantha Berman-Melendez helps parents and individuals facing relationship strain, stress, anxiety, parenting questions, and life transitions. She also addresses issues such as depression, grief, addiction concerns, eating struggles, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy-related questions, anger, and career or self-esteem worries. Samantha is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who uses coaching and psychotherapeutic work together to support change.
Samantha keeps sessions practical and focused on finding clearer perspective and usable resources.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify next steps, reduce overwhelm, and build routines or skills that fit everyday life. She draws on nearly two decades of direct clinical experience to guide those conversations. Her style centers on partnership and steady support.
She listens for what matters most, then helps shape realistic goals and small experiments clients can try between meetings. That mix of coaching and therapy is meant to move people forward without pressure. Many clients come with practical barriers to progress, such as limited access to tools or not knowing where to start.
Samantha works to remove those obstacles by suggesting concrete strategies and local or online resources when useful. She frames change as a step-by-step process rather than a single event. With 18 years of experience and an LCSW-R license, Samantha offers a blend of wellness, coaching, and clinical care that focuses on improving daily functioning and perspective.
She welcomes conversations about how a collaborative approach might fit each person’s situation.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Samantha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques combined with coaching to help people make practical changes. One approach focuses on skills training and behavioral strategies that break down problems into manageable steps; this is useful for anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, and building routines. Another common approach emphasizes perspective work and goal-setting, helping clients clarify values, set short-term goals, and try small experiments between sessions to test what works.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients choose which techniques to try based on their goals, day-to-day needs, and preferences. She adapts methods as progress is made so the plan stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy schedules or caregiving duties. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work on relationships, parenting, stress, or mood into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point