Samantha Laterza
Support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Samantha
Samantha Laterza is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self-esteem struggles. Samantha offers straightforward support for common life changes, such as pregnancy, postpartum shifts, workplace pressure, and family tensions.
Her practice emphasizes a compassionate, collaborative style. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. She listens closely, helps name the problem, and works with clients to build coping skills and healthier communication patterns.
Background and approach
Samantha also brings experience supporting people dealing with social anxiety, body image concerns, and fertility or caregiver stress. She has experience related to autism, Asperger syndrome, and intellectual disability, and applies a patient, step-by-step approach to those challenges. Clients can expect help breaking big problems into manageable steps.
Samantha aims to strengthen self-understanding and everyday resilience. The work often includes practicing new ways to talk about needs and setting small, realistic goals for change. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and practices in New York.
Her background includes five years of clinical experience working across a range of family and life-stage concerns. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s situation.
Online approaches that support family and life transitions
Evidence-based techniques are used in practical ways. One common approach focuses on problem-solving and skills training. That involves identifying manageable steps, practicing communication strategies, and building routines to reduce stress and improve daily functioning. It helps with relationship tensions, workplace strain, and parenting challenges.A second approach emphasizes building emotional awareness and coping tools. This work teaches ways to notice distress, label emotions, and try different responses instead of reacting automatically. It can reduce anxiety, aid recovery after major life events like pregnancy or postpartum changes, and improve self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend options. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, phone sessions work when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging help with brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and provide consistent support during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intellectual disability
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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