About Ricardo
Ricardo Santiago is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 22 years of clinical experience. He uses a compassionate, individualized approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, and depression. Ricardo focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions and clear talk during meetings.
He often helps people manage trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Career strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles are also common topics he addresses.
How Ricardo works
Sessions emphasize straightforward skills and honest conversation rather than jargon. Ricardo combines his long experience with a flexible style that adapts to each person's needs. He listens for patterns in communication, family of origin issues, and avoidance or impulsivity that can keep someone stuck.
Together with the client he maps small goals and tracks progress over time. People working through abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, commitment or infidelity problems, and divorce or separation often find focused, practical support. He also addresses fatherhood issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and substance use concerns in a direct, supportive way.
His work aims to increase coping skills and self-understanding. Ricardo helps people sort priorities, improve communication, and make clearer choices for their lives. He frames therapy as a collaborative process with measurable steps.
What Ricardo works with
The areas below are the ones Ricardo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Ricardo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in a practical way. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns and practicing different responses in everyday situations, which can help with anxiety, impulsivity, and communication problems. Another approach emphasizes managing mood and stress through structured coping strategies and behavioral changes, useful for depression, bipolar concerns, and substance-related struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as progress is made. This collaborative process helps match techniques to the person's life and priorities rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions and keep momentum on skills and reflections. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or daily routines.
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