About Mariama
Mariama Samateh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people find clearer ways to manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship pain.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for depression, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and mood shifts like bipolar symptoms. She sees individual concerns in the context of relationships and systems.
That means she looks at patterns in families and close connections to understand current struggles. Mariama explains how past and present interactions shape feelings and behavior, so a person can spot repeating patterns.
In sessions she works collaboratively and simply. She helps people identify what matters to them and build small, practical steps to change.
Expect straightforward conversation, chance to reflect, and tools you can try between meetings. Mariama uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused methods when relevant.
These approaches guide how she listens, asks questions, and suggests coping skills tailored to each situation. She offers services in English, Bambara, and Wolof and accepts international clients.
People often come to her for help with communication struggles, parenting stress, recovery from abuse, coping with life changes, or improving self-esteem. The focus is on making progress you can notice in day-to-day life.
How Mariama’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building understanding of what matters to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back, and helps people name goals and values. This approach is useful for improving self-esteem and making sense of relationship patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions and how they influence each other. It introduces practical exercises and short experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and encourage different behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and many everyday coping challenges.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mariama will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make this work flexible. Video calls let the therapist and client connect face-to-face for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit quick check-ins or times when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, on-the-go ways to share updates or get brief guidance between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Bambara, Wolof