About Chanin
Chanin Santini is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, and intimacy concerns. She offers straightforward support for depression, addiction, trauma, and issues around self-esteem and identity. Her work is welcoming to LGBT clients and people with diverse sexual interests and relationship styles.
Chanin focuses on practical steps people can take right away. Sessions often include talking through tough moments, learning coping skills, and practicing new ways to ask for needs.
Background and approach
She uses clear language and concrete tools rather than jargon. Her background includes long-term clinical work in California where she supported people through life changes, loss, and medical challenges such as cancer and fertility stress. She brings experience with first responder issues, grief, and the strains of workplace dynamics.
Therapy sessions may draw on several approaches depending on the person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to steady attention and reduce reactivity.
Client-centered work creates space to feel heard and understood. Chanin also addresses relationship patterns like communication problems, commitment concerns, and attachment issues. She works with people on body image, eating or food-related issues, and navigating separation or divorce.
Her style is collaborative and goal-focused, aiming to build skills that fit each person’s life.
How Chanin’s Approaches Work Online
Chanin uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices in ways that translate well to online formats. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; online sessions can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework to try between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and strengthen focus, which can be guided in a video or audio session.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which methods to try first. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as progress and needs change over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed; live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps express difficult material. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or changing day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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