About Naomi
Naomi Silverman is a licensed master social worker with 35 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She works with adults and older adolescents to build practical coping skills and restore motivation. Naomi emphasizes respect and compassion in every interaction and adapts her approach to each person’s needs.
Naomi uses clear, straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each client. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to increase calm and focus.
How Naomi works
When relationships or emotional bonding are central, she brings in emotionally focused ideas to help people understand and shift patterns. Her sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the person sitting across from her. Naomi helps clients set small, manageable goals and tracks progress in concrete ways.
She also addresses life transitions like career change, parenting strain, chronic health issues, and grief with practical strategies for daily living. Over three and a half decades she has supported people facing caregiving stress, chronic pain and illness, cancer, blended family dynamics, and the challenges of aging.
She is comfortable discussing intimacy and relationship concerns and helps people work through communication and commitment questions. Naomi tailors treatment plans using methods that match each person’s preferences and goals. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and offers steady, thoughtful support while people take steps toward a more satisfying life.
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What Naomi works with
The areas below are the ones Naomi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Naomi draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear, which helps with grief, change, and low motivation. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers concrete skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep.She uses a client-centered stance alongside these methods, which means the therapist follows the client's lead and adapts interventions to fit goals and preferences. Deciding which approach to emphasize is a team effort; Naomi helps clients test what works and adjusts plans as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief support into busy days and to follow up between longer sessions.
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