Red Samaniego, LMSW (They/Them)

Fellow

Red Samaniego is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) offering relational, trauma-informed psychotherapy to adults. They believe everyone can benefit from support in tending to the more difficult, uncertain, and worry-inducing aspects of their lives. Red’s approach is warm, non-judgmental, and tailored to each client. They have experience working with clients with a wide variety of identities and experiences, including clients seeking support as they navigate depression and anxiety; migration/immigration experiences; trans identities and coming out; reproductive autonomy and PPD; grief and loss; and addressing painful ancestral/inherited patterns.

Red uses interventions based on narrative therapy, parts work, liberation psychology, and psychodynamic theories. This can look like re-writing your story about yourself or a past event, untangling and finding compassion for your emotions, identifying how societal power structures affect your wellbeing, or working to change patterns of how you relate to and love yourself and others.

Red received an MSW from Smith School of Social Work and an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. They have trained at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital’s Maternal and Child Health Department in Baltimore, MD and at the liberation-focused therapy practice We Rise Collective, in Boston, MA. In addition to being a postgraduate fellow at the We Rise Collective, they currently see adults and couples at the Greene Clinic in NYC and low-income Spanish-speaking adults through the BHEAM program in Baltimore, MD.

Red is fluent in English and Spanish.