About Ricardo
Ricardo Santiago is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works in Florida and offers practical, steady support for everyday struggles. He speaks English and uses a direct, compassionate style to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
He focuses on a broad set of concerns including depression, addictions, relationship problems, low self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and parenting stress. Ricardo also helps with career transitions, coping with life changes, anger, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
He pays attention to issues such as communication problems, control issues, infidelity, and fatherhood concerns. In sessions he takes a problem-solving, evidence-based approach and tailors methods to each person's needs. Conversations often include setting clear goals, practicing new ways to handle stress, and learning skills for managing emotions and impulses.
He can also help people explore family of origin issues and attachment-related concerns like abandonment or adoption and foster care experiences. Ricardo has worked with people across many stages of life and brings steady clinical experience to complex situations. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name patterns and try new behaviors.
Therapy is practical, focused on small steps that add up over time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to his availability. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How Ricardo’s approaches work online
Ricardo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on skill building and practical change. One common approach is goal-focused behavioral work that helps people identify unhelpful patterns and try small, concrete changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This approach is useful for stress, panic, and daily coping struggles.He also uses trauma-informed methods to help people process difficult past experiences and build safety around emotional responses. These methods emphasize pacing, grounding skills, and strategies for managing triggers so daily life feels more manageable. For relationship and communication problems he employs structured communication and problem-solving exercises to improve conversations and reduce conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ricardo will discuss options, listen to your goals, and help decide which techniques fit your needs and preferences. That collaboration helps shape a flexible plan you can try and revise as you progress.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let you connect face to face, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging fit quick check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a workday or parenting schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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