Emily-Rose Santamaria, LCSW
Collaborative, strength-based clinical social worker
Details
| Name | Emily-Rose Santamaria |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Connecticut |
| Licensed in | Connecticut |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 4 |
About Emily-Rose
Emily-Rose Santamaria is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker with four years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like anxiety, stress, depression, mood disorders, addiction, and parenting concerns. Emily-Rose treats concerns related to relationships, attachment issues, grief, intimacy, and many life changes in straightforward, respectful ways.
Her style is warm and interactive. She works alongside people as a team to reach clear goals. She avoids stigmatizing labels and emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
Background and approach
Emily-Rose uses a mix of approaches and draws from Narrative Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. She adapts conversations and plans to match each person's needs rather than following one fixed method. In sessions she helps people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships, then practices small changes that improve daily life.
She highlights strengths and practical strategies for coping, problem solving, and building better communication. Work focuses on what matters most to the person and on steps they can take between meetings. Parents and individuals who prefer a collaborative, strength-based approach find her straightforward and encouraging.
She accepts English-speaking clients from Connecticut and international clients, offering a range of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Anger management among the things Emily-Rose works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Emily-Rose among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Emily-Rose directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Emily-Rose directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Attachment Work Online
Emily-Rose integrates Narrative Therapy to help people tell and reframe the stories they live by, making it easier to spot patterns that cause distress and to imagine different outcomes. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. Client-Centered Therapy guides the way she listens and responds, keeping the person's perspective and goals at the center of each session.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. She treats the choice of methods as collaborative and adjusts techniques to match a person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than following one fixed model. Clients help set goals and decide which strategies feel most useful for them.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing work between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family obligations.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy-related problems, parenting, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, interactive, and team-oriented. She takes a person-centered, strength-based approach and tailors sessions to each person's goals.
What is her professional background?
She has four years of professional experience providing clinical social work services in Connecticut and has worked with a wide range of concerns across ages.
What credentials and location information are provided?
She is a CT LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut, and practices from Connecticut.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin care with her?
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