S. Touma LCSW, PLLC

Sammy Touma

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

-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.

-Because of my medical school experience in neurology, pharmacology, and psychiatry,
patients have benefited tremendously.

-Virtual, and if absolutely needed, near Garden City, Melville, Manhasset, and Hicksville (if
absolutely needed, closer to the Hamptons in Bohemia).

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.

Languages: English

Insurances Accepted: Northwell Direct

Fees + Sliding Scale: 205 (and if absolutely needed, lower ranges 185, 165).