About Emily-Rose
Emily-Rose Santamaria is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Connecticut. She has four years of professional experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles. She works with individuals on issues like ADHD, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and self-esteem in clear, down-to-earth language.
Her style is warm and interactive. She treats clients with respect and compassion, and avoids stigmatizing labels. She sees therapy as a team effort and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Emily-Rose uses a mix of approaches and adapts them to what each person needs. She draws on attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns and on cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also incorporates mindfulness and skills from dialectical work to help people manage intense emotions.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Conversations are guided by the client’s priorities and strengths rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. The therapist helps clients notice patterns, try small changes, and build coping tools that work for everyday life.
She has experience supporting a wide range of concerns from abandonment and family-of-origin problems to communication and intimacy issues. Emily-Rose aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable so people can take steady steps toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions explore those patterns and help people try different ways of relating in daily life, which can ease repeated conflicts and closeness fears. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions teach practical strategies to shift thinking and try small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety or depression.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Then she will blend techniques and adjust the plan as needed, so the approach fits each person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more direct interaction helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, skills practice, or people who prefer written conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when life gets chaotic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English