Sammy Touma
LCSW
she/her
Accepting new clients
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Licensed states
Florida New York
Services Provided
Child Therapy Couples Therapy Family Therapy Individual Therapy Parenting Therapy Sex Therapy Teen Therapy
Ages Served
Children (6-10) Older Adults (65+) Pre-teens (10-12) Teens (13-17) Young Adults (18-25)
Practice details
About this provider
Clients I Work With
-Experienced in treating: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Relationship issues, ADHD,
OCD, Transitions in life, Self-identity/ Self-Esteem Issues and more.
-Clients range across all ages, from children to geriatric. I offer both Individual and Couples
Counseling.
Reviews: https://www.zocdoc.com/professional/samya-sammy-touma-lcsw-431236
-Because of my medical school experience in neurology, pharmacology, and psychiatry,
patients have benefited tremendously.
-In network with Northwell, and offering a lower than average sliding scale (185 and if
absolutely needed, 135-155 and similar ranges).
-Virtual, and if absolutely needed, near Garden City, Melville, Manhasset, and Hicksville (if
absolutely needed, closer to the Hamptons in Bohemia).
Approach
Specializing in EMDR (trained) for trauma, and in couples counseling (Gottman Trained). -As an LCSW, with 10 years of therapy experience, I was accepted to medical school at 17
years old, and this medical background helps tremendously in understanding the body-mind
connection and healing.
-Offering: EMDR (trained), worked with someone who worked closely with the founder of EMDR, and who wrote the EMDR
manual
-CBT
-Therapy based on Psychodynamic Principles
-Elements of DBT
-Gottman Method Couples Counseling
Beliefs & Lived Experience
Feedback: with all humility described as
–“radically transforming lives”,
-causing clients to feel more confident in self and future “than ever before”
- having in-depth-knowledge,
-providing specific coping strategies and exercises that transform long-held thinking patterns,
-highly skilled at understanding needs,
-providing hope, empathy, kindness and genuineness,
-producing concrete results,
-being well-versed across multiple modalities.
Specialties & approaches
Specialties
ADHD Aging Anger Management Anxiety Attachment Autism Behavioral Issues Burnout Cancer Chronic Pain and Illness Codependency Consensual Non-Monogamy Depression Disability Divorce Domestic Abuse Educational and Learning Disabilities Faith-Based Care Gender Identity Grief Highly Sensitive People (HSP) Immigrant & Refugee Mental Health Infertility & Reproductive Mental Health Infidelity / Affair Recovery Insomnia & Sleep Disorders Life Transitions Men’s Mental Health Menopause & Perimenopause Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Older Adults & Aging Panic Parent-Child Bonding & Attachment Perfectionism Personality Disorders Phobias Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health Relationship Issues Religious Trauma & Spiritual Abuse Self Esteem Sexual Abuse Spiritual Abuse Spirituality Trauma & PTSD Weight Loss Women’s Mental Health
Therapy approaches
Attachment-Based Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) Culturally Responsive Therapy Dialectical Behavior (DBT) Dreamwork EMDR Gottman Method Mindful Self Compassion Mindfulness Motivational Interviewing Parts Work Positive Psychology Psychodynamic Therapy Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Specialized Experience
BIPOC clients Body-positive / Health at Every Size Entrepreneurs & Executives First Responders & Medical Professionals Law Enforcement LGBTQ+ Affirming Neurodiversity-affirming Race & cultural identity Sex-positive / kink friendly Veterans / Military Service
Fees & insurance
Session Fees
From $185
Payment Accepted
Cash
Check
Private Pay (Superbills Not Provided)
Sliding Scale
Insurance Accepted
Northwell Direct
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