About Daphne
Daphne Santiful offers help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, parenting strains, and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 32 years of experience and works with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Daphne keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
She listens first, then helps people shape small steps they can try between meetings. She uses everyday language and focuses on concrete tools that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her background includes long clinical practice in North Carolina and experience supporting people through midlife shifts, workplace pressure, and complicated family situations. She has worked with clients navigating divorce and blended family concerns and with caregivers facing prolonged stress.
In sessions she often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose values-based actions. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to create space for self-reflection and steadying practices. Daphne aims to help clients improve communication, manage anxiety, and rebuild a sense of purpose.
She encourages realistic goals and gradual change so progress feels doable. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on practical solutions you can use day to day.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It often includes simple exercises and values-based goals that are easy to practice between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thought patterns and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. It uses practical homework and short experiments that work well over video or messaging.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily routine. That choice can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when video is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions, do brief coaching, or manage quick struggles without waiting for the next appointment. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Connecticut
- Languages
- English