About Zehra
Zehra Dos Santos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and the strain of major life changes. She encourages clients to recognize their strengths and take small steps toward feeling better.
Zehra sees the person as the expert on their own life. She offers steady support while people clarify what matters to them and set realistic goals. Sessions focus on practical skills and on noticing how thoughts and actions shape daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach blends evidence-informed methods with a warm, client-centered stance. She draws from acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, and mindfulness practices to build coping strategies. Dialectical behavior techniques and motivational interviewing also appear when they fit a client's needs.
Zehra has three years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns tied to identity, relationships, and transitions. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, communication difficulties, control struggles, forgiveness, immigration challenges, and questions about life purpose. Women's issues and aging-related topics are included among her focus areas.
She conducts sessions in English and accepts international clients. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes that make daily life easier.
Therapeutic approaches available online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steps that matter, which can be useful for anxiety and life-change decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, often helping with stress and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions often mix approaches so clients learn practical skills while also building broader awareness and motivation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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