About Loretta
Loretta Samenga is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addictions. She listens with attention and offers practical tools so daily life feels more manageable. Her style is calm and respectful, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps - skills to handle panic, routines to lift mood, or strategies to reduce substance use.
Background and approach
Conversations balance understanding past hurts with building present coping skills. Her practice pays attention to relationship patterns and attachment concerns. That includes work around abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and communication problems.
Loretta also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and other long-term challenges. Therapy often combines talk with behavioral tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps change unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy add ways to tolerate strong emotions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy guides people to identify and name painful feelings. With six years of clinical experience, Loretta aims to make therapy practical and usable.
She helps clients set realistic goals and track progress. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled from her New York practice.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead. Online sessions using this approach focus on building trust, reflecting concerns, and setting goals that matter to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change patterns. In video or phone sessions CBT may include worksheets, thought records, and behavior plans adapted for home use.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean combining goal-focused CBT with mindfulness skills or adding emotion regulation tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when feelings feel overwhelming.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients work visually through exercises and worksheets. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing support between appointments. These formats help make therapy fit into busy lives and different comfort levels.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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