About Taryn
Taryn Santos is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and low self-esteem. Her work focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can move forward from hard moments.
She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. Sessions involve clear goals, skill-building, and space to talk through painful memories or current conflicts.
Background and approach
Taryn pays attention to attachment patterns and communication habits that affect relationships and daily life. Taryn also helps people dealing with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress. She has experience with issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, substance problems, and domestic violence.
The aim is to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve coping strategies. Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Taryn draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered methods.
She adapts techniques to fit each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients can expect straightforward talk, practical tools, and steady pacing. Taryn helps people clarify values, practice new responses to stress, and build small routines that support well-being.
The work moves at a pace the client can handle.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to change behavior and mood. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together you will try strategies, adjust techniques, and pick tools that fit your life and pace the process collaboratively.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect: video calls for a conversational session, phone for lower bandwidth or when you prefer not to use video, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or mobility needs and to keep progress moving even when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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