About Emily-Rose
Emily-Rose Santamaria is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker with four years of practice. She brings a warm, interactive style to sessions and treats people with respect and compassion. She focuses on building a collaborative relationship where the client’s goals guide the work.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, and mood disorders. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.
How Emily-Rose works
Her approach draws from attachment-based therapy, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness practices. Sessions are tailored to each person, using techniques that fit the individual rather than a fixed formula. Emily-Rose describes her perspective as person-centered and strength-based.
She works to identify a person’s existing resources and build on them in practical ways. Conversations aim to find manageable steps toward clearer thinking, better emotion regulation, and improved day-to-day functioning. She views the person as the expert on their life and sees therapy as a team effort.
Taking the first step can be difficult, and she acknowledges that choice as a meaningful start toward change.
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What Emily-Rose works with
The areas below are the ones Emily-Rose selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Emily-Rose often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stressful situations.She also uses attachment-based ideas that focus on how past relationships shape current patterns. This approach can help when relationship struggles, attachment issues, or family-of-origin concerns affect day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then tailor the methods to fit the person. The process is collaborative and open to adjustment as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity when schedules shift.
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A practical next step
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