About Samantha
Samantha Laterza is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who uses practical therapy to help people manage stress and anxiety. She centers sessions on clear goals and steady support so people can feel more capable in day-to-day life. She focuses on relationship concerns, family worries, and building self-esteem.
Samantha helps people facing life changes like pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum adjustments. She also addresses workplace strain and social anxiety in straightforward, problem-focused ways.
Background and approach
Samantha has five years of clinical experience. That background includes helping people with caregiver stress, communication problems, and fertility-related emotions. She also brings experience supporting people with autism, Asperger Syndrome, and intellectual disability across many life stages.
Sessions emphasize collaboration and practical skills. Samantha works with each person to build coping tools that fit their routine. Conversations often include concrete strategies for managing anxious thoughts, calming techniques, and steps to rebuild confidence.
The practice aims to be adaptable to different needs. People may use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to stay consistent with therapy. If someone prefers short check-ins or longer weekly sessions, scheduling is shaped around those preferences.
Therapeutic tools and online care that fit your life
Samantha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method teaches how thoughts influence feelings and behavior, helping people spot anxious thinking and try different responses. This approach is useful for social anxiety, worry, and repetitive stress reactions.Another method centers on building everyday coping skills through small experiments and routine habits. It helps with low mood, body image concerns, and adjusting to life transitions like pregnancy or returning to work. Exercises may include brief behavior changes, paced activity planning, and skill rehearsals between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Samantha collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. The pair will try techniques, notice what helps, and adapt plans together rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy makes this collaboration easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls create a face-to-face space for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins or brief coping support. These options allow flexible scheduling and steady progress without needing a commute.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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