Dr. Deb Berman is a solution‑focused psychotherapist and coach who helps people in big transitions and relationships needing change, find steadier ground, clearer options, and a more livable next chapter.
Bio
For nearly two decades, Dr. Deb Berman has worked with adults and relationships navigating anxiety, burnout, major life transitions, and complex relational dynamics. She divides her time between Amsterdam and New York City and works primarily online, supporting New York–based psychotherapy clients and coaching clients around the world.
Her approach weaves together deep presence, practical tools, and a wry sense of humor, creating a space where people can be fully themselves while also moving toward real change. She is sex, sexuality, alternative‑relationship, and gender positive, and welcomes couples, polycules, blended families, and individuals exploring desire, identity, and connection.
Credentials
- Doctor of Ministry (DMin) with a focus on counseling and spiritual care.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York, with almost 20 years of psychotherapy experience.
- Registered coach, offering goal‑oriented individual and relationship coaching worldwide.
- Extensive training across modalities, including CBT, mindfulness‑based approaches, somatic work, trauma‑informed care, Internal Family Systems–informed work, and Buddhist psychology.
- Longstanding experience with expats and global nomads, people healing from religious or spiritual injury, and those living outside conventional boxes in love, family, and community.
Find balance and healing with her solution‑focused online psychotherapy in New York, or work with her through her separate goal‑oriented individual and relationship coaching practice, where diverse global wisdom paths meet contemporary interventions.
Why me
For people in big transitions
If you are relocating, living as an expat or nomad, shifting careers, ending or beginning a major relationship, living with illness, or rethinking your spirituality, you may feel both resourceful and completely overwhelmed. Dr. Deb offers structured, compassionate support to help you stabilize, make sense of what is happening, and design a next chapter that actually fits you, through Individual Therapy in New York and her 3‑Month Transition Navigation coaching package worldwide.
For relationships needing change
If you are in a couple, polycule, or blended family caught in loops of conflict, facing a big decision, or hoping for a full relationship reset, you need more than generic advice. Dr. Deb brings specific expertise in communication, consent, boundaries, non‑monogamy, kink, and sexuality, offering Relationship and Sexuality Coaching worldwide through her 6‑Session Relationship/Sexuality Reset, and, for eligible New York clients, deeper relational work within psychotherapy.
For those who want both depth and direction
Many people come to Dr. Deb because they want more than calm listening; they also want concrete tools and a sense of direction. Her work combines reflective, trauma‑informed depth with practical steps—home practices, scripts, experiments, and frameworks—that you can take into real life between sessions. She understands how identity, culture, spirituality, and systemic forces shape your story, and she treats all of those layers as welcome in the room.
If you are in a big transition or your relationship is asking for change, you do not have to figure it out alone.
- New York residents: Start with the 8‑Session Foundations Track of online Individual Therapy.
- Couples, polycules, and blended families worldwide: Explore the 6‑Session Relationship/Sexuality Reset coaching package.
- Individuals in major life transitions worldwide: Apply for the 3‑Month Transition Navigation coaching package.
Book a brief consultation to choose the path that fits you best and begin your work with Dr. Deb Berman
