United States
Dr. Laura Berman is a Chicago-area sex and relationship therapist, NYT bestselling author, and longtime media personality whose career spans academic clinical work and mainstream television.
Total Followers +0.8%
115K
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
36K followers · 31% of audience
Engagement
2.5%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $1.5K–$3.8K / IG post
Dr. Berman's grief guide, drawn from her own son's loss and three decades of clinical work, is a companion piece to her podcast of the same name.
The joint event promoted her forthcoming book and explored themes including how grief affects the body, creativity, and meaning-making.
The feature highlighted her Grief Healing Collective community and the upcoming Crying Out Loud book, framing her as a leading voice in grief transformation.
The podcast positions Dr. Berman as a certified grief educator, adding a dedicated grief-support audio channel to her content ecosystem.
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
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| Last 7 days | +100 +0.3% | +68 +0.1% | -2 -0.1% | +166 |
| Last 30 days | +609 +1.7% | +325 +0.4% | +9 +0.3% | +943 |
| Last 90 days | +2K +5.9% | +772 +1.0% | +37 +1.1% | +3K |
| Last 365 days | +2K +5.9% | +772 +1.0% | +37 +1.1% | +3K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Dr. Laura Berman is a Chicago-area sex and relationship therapist, NYT bestselling author, and longtime media personality whose career spans academic clinical work and mainstream television. She holds advanced degrees in health education and social work, and built her public profile through years of appearances on network and cable TV — most notably a recurring presence on Oprah's platforms and her own series on the OWN network — where she became a recognizable voice on intimacy, communication, and sexual health. Her content has always centered frank, clinically grounded conversations about topics many practitioners avoid on camera, giving her a distinct credibility edge over lifestyle influencers in the relationship space.
In recent years, Berman has broadened her focus significantly following the loss of her son to a fentanyl overdose in 2021, adding grief, healing, and personal reinvention to her content mix — reflected in her book "Crying Out Loud" and her "Crying Out Loud" podcast community. Her audience skews heavily female and concentrates in the 18–34 demographic, a cohort actively seeking credentialed guidance on relationships and emotional wellbeing. That combination of clinical authority and personal vulnerability positions her well for partnerships in mental wellness, publishing, and women's health — categories increasingly attractive to brand advertisers as the creator economy matures around professional-expert voices.
Drlauraberman reaches an audience concentrated in United States primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. As a wellness creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. With no brand deals logged yet, they read as an available, category-aligned partner for advertisers building early presence in the space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 2.5%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows wellness content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For United States-focused brands in wellness and related categories, Drlauraberman offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
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Dr. Laura Berman's son Samuel 'Sammy' Berman Fox died of a fentanyl overdose in February 2021 after purchasing what he believed were prescription pills through social media. His death became a turning point in her career, moving her to speak publicly about the fentanyl crisis and shift a significant part of her work toward grief and healing. This tragedy directly inspired her NYT bestselling book and podcast, both titled Crying Out Loud.
Crying Out Loud is Dr. Berman's memoir and therapeutic guide to surviving catastrophic loss, written in the aftermath of her son Sammy's death from a fentanyl overdose. As a licensed grief and relationship therapist, she weaves her personal journey together with clinical tools for navigating grief and rebuilding identity. The book became a NYT bestseller and expanded into both a podcast and a dedicated online healing community.
The Grief Healing Collective, found on Instagram at @griefhealingcollective, is a community Dr. Berman created for people working through devastating loss. It grew directly out of her own public grief journey after losing her son in 2021 and serves as a space for shared healing, resources, and emotional support. It represents her expansion beyond sex and relationship therapy into the grief and reinvention space.
Yes — Dr. Laura Berman appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show multiple times as a featured expert on sex, relationships, and intimacy, which helped cement her national profile. She later hosted her own series, In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman, on the OWN network. That television background is what established her as a mainstream therapist-turned-media personality well before the social media era.
Yes — Dr. Laura Berman holds a doctoral degree and is a licensed clinical social worker and certified sex therapist, so her credentials are clinical rather than honorary. She specializes in love, sex, relationships, and grief, and she maintains a clinical practice alongside her media work. Her academic and professional background is central to how she distinguishes herself from non-credentialed relationship influencers online.
The Language of Love podcast is Dr. Berman's long-running show covering relationships, intimacy, communication, and emotional connection — the core of her expertise as a sex and relationship therapist. It features her expert commentary alongside guest conversations on topics ranging from dating and marriage to sexuality and self-worth. It predates her grief-focused pivot and remains a cornerstone of her audio presence.
The Crying Out Loud podcast is Dr. Berman's grief and healing show, launched as a companion to her NYT bestselling book of the same name. It focuses on loss, emotional recovery, and reinvention, drawing on both her clinical expertise and her lived experience of losing her son Sammy. The podcast marks a meaningful evolution of her brand beyond sex and relationship therapy.
No — Dr. Laura Berman and Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the conservative radio host known simply as 'Dr. Laura,' are two entirely different people. Dr. Berman is a licensed sex and relationship therapist with a non-judgmental, clinically grounded approach to intimacy and grief. The name overlap causes genuine search confusion, but their credentials, content, and philosophies are very different.
Craig Siegel is an entrepreneur and life coach known for his work on reinvention and personal transformation. He appears in Dr. Berman's hashtags and content in connection with the Crying Out Loud podcast, where themes of grief, healing, and rebuilding identity intersect naturally with his coaching philosophy. Their collaboration reflects Dr. Berman's post-loss pivot toward helping people reconstruct their lives alongside processing grief.
Dr. Laura Berman is most consistently active on YouTube and Instagram, where she posts relationship, intimacy, sex, and grief content to a predominantly U.S.-based audience. Instagram currently holds her largest follower count, while YouTube is her declared primary channel. She also maintains a TikTok presence, though her core engagement is concentrated on the first two platforms.
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