About Chanin
Chanin Santini is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing intimacy, relationship, and identity concerns. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is direct, compassionate, and affirming for LGBT clients and others exploring sexuality and gender questions.
She offers straightforward help for anxiety, stress, depression, and addictions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Coaching skills are used alongside therapy to set goals and track progress.
Background and approach
Chanin draws on client-centered methods to listen first and tailor the work to each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices are used when strong emotions or self-regulation are central concerns.
Her background includes 15 years of clinical practice across California. Chanin holds the LCSW credential and maintains a grounded, practical approach that focuses on day-to-day coping and longer-term shifts in relationships and identity. People often come for help with communication problems, attachment and intimacy issues, body image and eating concerns, or situations like divorce, fertility challenges, and cancer-related stress.
She also supports first responder stress and people navigating kink, BDSM, and alternative sexual cultures. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused, with clear steps between meetings. Chanin helps people build skills they can use outside of sessions and checks progress as part of ongoing care.
Approaches for online therapy and flexible care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building treatment around what matters most to the person. In practice this means sessions start with the client's priorities and the therapist adapts methods to match those goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete steps to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Chanin will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying CBT exercises one week and using mindfulness or DBT skills the next, then checking in on what helps most.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people read body language and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide ongoing touchpoints and brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English