Zalman (Samuel) Nelson
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
About Zalman
Hi, I’m Zalman. Great to meet you. So you’re looking for a therapist? That’s awesome. It takes courage to be here and you clearly have it!
As for me, I’m a therapist with over 15 years of online therapy work: phone/video calls, text. It’s a passion of mine to use digital tools to help people: learn the emotional life skills they need to handle feelings, validate themselves, learn from emotional triggers, improve confidence and communication, and upgrade all of their relationships.
And by adding inner child healing to the work, we get to the core of the issues. That way you get more effective, faster-achieved, and longer-lasting results that you’ll see soon after you start…not after months. Results that you’ll learn how to self-maintain and continue to develop. The goal is for you to fire me as soon as possible because you gained the knowledge, insight, tools, and skills to manage your own emotions and navigate the situations and relationships you encounter each day.
My training includes a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, where I focused on Addictions treatment and did field placement work with an Inpatient Addiction Recovery center and the 12-Step community. Along with spiritual learning and a soulful background, I see much effectiveness from drawing upon and blending a broad range of tools, approaches, techniques, and philosophies that unite to provide what clients uniquely need in order to thrive, heal, grow, find happiness and success and confidence, and stand on their own two feet.
Learn more about me online and on social media. Or sign up today and we’ll get to work 🙂
What Zalman helps with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How Zalman works
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
What clients say
- “My therapist has been pivotal in my rehabilitation and has helped me through one of the most difficult moments in my adult life. He has been amazing and helped me lose my stigma of therapy.”
- “Zalman is an excellent therapist and provides fast, relevant feedback that's extremely helpful. He's a great listener and gets where you're coming from. He also provides great resources. I've had many different therapists over the years, and he's by far the best! Highly recommend!!”
- “Two words, heaven sent.”
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- “I was skeptical, but after my first session I already felt lighter. That feeling didn’t necessarily last but with each event and flow of my situation Zalman has been their with advise, guidance, and support that no matter how bad I was feeling about something a session or even a quick message instilled the calm I needed in the moment and for the rest of my day.”
- “I’m not really good with words but i feel like samuel is like a friend but not just a regular friend. A professional friend that you will need the most.”
- “Samuel is incredibly intelligent and compassionate- it is amazing how much he remembers and how he ties it all together for me.”
- “Zalman has been a trusted guide through some of the difficult challenges in my life. He listens attentively and provides thoughtful recommendations, relevant anecdotes, and professional evidence in equal measure. He approaches our discussions with care, candor, and humor, and I can honestly say that he feels more like a trusted friend than a clinical therapist. Highly recommended.”
- “Absolutely phenomenal therapist with a kind heart, listening ear, and a no nonsense approach to self love + interdependence via healthy relationships. Working with Zalman has been especially critical in navigating inner child work and reparenting myself. I highly recommend.”
- “Thank you Zalman for your patience and commitment. You have been exceptional.”
- “Zalman is such a godsend. He’s an amazing listener and really cares about all my issues. His responses go into great detail about any concern I have and I’ve found every single response so useful and deeply considered by him. He spells out concepts in a way that makes them easily understood and able to be utilised in life. I’m so grateful for all his help.”
- “Zalman is thoughtful in his approach, responses, and an overall great listener and supporter. I feel so heard, supported and seen and know that this is a safe space for all parts of me to show up.”
- “Zalman has helped me heal from passed childhood trauma and continue to heal from trauma still effecting me. He has helped me learn to set up healthy boundaries and to identify my feelings. I am able to process and work on my triggers more easily now. <br /> <br /> I would highly recommend.”
- “My experience with Zalman has been great. He is a competent and thoughtful guide through my thoughts and issues, always open to exploring options that fit me and my lifestyle.”
- “Communicating with Zalman feels like I'm communicating with a friend. He's insightful, calming, encouraging, and human. The task of getting to know the darker aspects of myself seems possible with Zalman's guidance.”
- “Very insightful and checks up on me frequently, helped me sort through a lot of negative emotions and connect to my feelings.”
These reviews represent a few of the most recent positive reviews from the therapist's clients on BetterHelp. Some people's experience may be different.
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