About Emily-Rose
Emily-Rose Santamaria is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker with four years of professional experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, mood concerns, and related life challenges. Her approach is team-oriented and straightforward, aiming to help clients take practical steps toward feeling better.
She keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations are guided by respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental stance. She does not rely on labels and centers the person’s own story and strengths.
Background and approach
Emily-Rose blends several methods to suit each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses attachment-based and client-centered perspectives to strengthen relationships and build trust.
Sessions typically focus on clear, manageable goals and skills people can use between meetings. She incorporates mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies to help with intense emotions, grounding, and self-regulation. Plans are tailored to what the client wants to work on and how they prefer to proceed.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, addiction, grief, relationship and family problems, parenting stress, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her style fits people who want practical tools and a collaborative partner to sort through anxious thoughts and stressful situations.
Emily-Rose welcomes clients who prefer a respectful, strengths-based approach and who want to work together on concrete steps toward improved day-to-day functioning.
Evidence-informed approaches for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on understanding relationship patterns and their impact on emotions. It helps people notice how past bonds shape current worries and closeness, and it can be useful for relationship strain and attachment issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical and skill-oriented, often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching tools to break cycles of worry and avoidance.
Emily-Rose also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These strategies help when emotions feel overwhelming and when practical coping tools are needed between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. The plan can shift as progress is made and new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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