Liza Samuel , LCSW

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Liza Samuel , LCSW

Liza Samuel, LCSW
Psychotherapist
💬 Trauma & Grief Therapist
💪 Helping you heal before you pass it on
💥 Cycle breaker mom
🌴 Founder Azadi Therapy | Miami Beach

04/06/2026

If meds made you feel worse, this may explain why.
Psychiatrists admit prescribing them can be “a bit of a crapshoot.”
New research may change that.

04/05/2026

You're watching everyone else hit milestones you haven't even started working toward. And you're wondering what's wrong with you.

Nothing is wrong with you.

While they were learning who they were, you were learning how to survive. While they were making mistakes and growing from them, you were managing chaos that wasn't yours to manage. While they got to be kids, you were the adult in the room.

Your brain didn't have the luxury of development. It had a job: keep you alive.

So now you're here. Late twenties, thirties, forties. Finally safe enough to ask "who am I?" while everyone else figured that out at twenty.

Here's what I know about people like you. You have more empathy, more emotional range, more capacity to sit with hard things than people who never had to fight to exist.

But that doesn't make what you lost okay. You still got robbed of ease, of lightness, of the chance to just be.

Therapy is where you finally get to grieve that. And then build the life you actually want instead of the one survival mode chose for you.

You're not behind. You're building from scratch what others inherited. That takes longer. And it's worth it.

04/04/2026

Make time for intimacy. Because connection isn't just emotional.

04/03/2026

Make time for fun. Real fun. Giggling in the kitchen, inside jokes, being a little silly together.

04/02/2026

These aren't magic. They won't fix attachment wounds or heal what you brought into the relationship from childhood.

But they're a place to start.

Wake up and ask yourself one way you can make your partner feel good today. And one way you can make yourself feel good today.

Make time for fun. Real fun. Giggling in the kitchen, inside jokes, being a little silly together.

Make time for intimacy. Because connection isn't just emotional.

Your kids don't need perfect parents. They need parents who still like each other. Who whisper and laugh and choose each other in small ways every day.

Life is genuinely better when there's joy in it. That's not dismissive of hard things. It's the whole point of doing the hard things.

04/01/2026

A quiet mind isn't the same thing as a healed one.
Medication can turn down the volume. But it doesn't tell you why the noise was there to begin with.

We've confused managing symptoms with doing the actual work.

03/31/2026

A little bit of psychology in the wrong hands becomes a weapon.

And I say this as someone who wants mental health to be normalized. That part is a win. But somewhere along the way therapy-speak became a sword to stab people with.

You're a narcissist. You're gaslighting me. I went to therapy so now I can diagnose you.
Or a shield to avoid looking at your own behavior.

Real therapy isn't about diagnosing the people around you. It's about having the humility to look at yourself.

03/30/2026

This is what healing actually looks like sometimes.
Not pretty. Not quiet. Just real.

What you're seeing is called an abreaction. When emotions that have been stored in the body for a long time finally come out. The crying, the shaking, the release of it all.

A therapist's job isn't to rush you out of that moment. It's to sit with you in it. Like sitting shiva. You don't fix grief. You witness it.

03/29/2026

Things I type after a session that would surprise you.

My notes are written to protect privacy.
No names. No identifying details. No pronouns.
If they were read in a court of law, they would give almost nothing away.

They are meant to protect you and reflect your growth, not tell your story.

This is what they actually look like:

“client attended retreat and reports feeling lighter and more grounded”
“client engaged in conflict and reflecting on impact and next steps”
“client identifying patterns in relationships and building insight”
“client demonstrating increased distress tolerance and emotional awareness”

Sometimes that means translating details into something more protective:

❌ “client’s husband said…”
✅ “client’s partner said…”

❌ “client went on an ayahuasca journey”
✅ “client attended a retreat and reports feeling lighter and more grounded”

I track patterns, growth, and nervous system shifts.
Not gossip. Not details. Not identities.

03/28/2026

A day in a life of a therapist

03/27/2026

Number one: “I was diagnosed with _____.”

There’s nothing wrong with you.

You’re not broken.
You’re not disordered.

You had a normal reaction to an abnormal situation.

Those symptoms you were labeled with?
That’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do to keep you alive.

Number two: “I’m on a zillion different pharmaceuticals.”

I’m not judging that.

But I am wondering.

Did anyone ask what happened to you before they decided something was wrong with your brain chemistry?

Did anyone help you understand your body’s response before medicating it away?

Number three: There is no number three.

I want you to tell me everything.

I can handle it.
I’ve got you.
We’ll do this together.

Let’s talk about what actually happened to you instead of what’s supposedly wrong with you.

03/26/2026

“I’m fine” is often just a way to avoid saying what’s really going on.
It can mean you don’t feel safe to be honest or you’ve gotten used to minimizing your own pain.

Pause and ask yourself what “fine” actually means right now.
You don’t have to hold it together all the time.

Address

1111 Lincoln Road Suite 511
Miami Beach, FL
33139

Telephone

+13055700248

Website

https://azaditherapy.clientsecure.me/request/clinician, https://myazadi.com/

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