Christopher Santos
Calm practical support for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christopher
Christopher Santos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. He focuses on common parenting and family concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, addiction, and parenting challenges. He speaks plainly and offers a calm, respectful presence for people who are unsure where to begin.
He approaches conversations with sensitivity and an emphasis on listening first. Sessions are shaped around each person's situation instead of a fixed script.
Background and approach
Christopher aims to help clients build practical skills for coping with anger, low self-esteem, life transitions, and trauma-related reactions. He draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, deepen emotional understanding, and strengthen motivation. That can include short exercises, guided reflection, and trying new ways of responding between sessions.
The goal is steady, doable progress rather than big leaps. Christopher has three years of professional experience and uses his LPC training to guide treatment choices. He tailors goals and techniques to what a person says they need, adjusting as progress is made.
Conversations are down-to-earth and paced to the client's comfort level. For parents worried about family tensions or someone facing substance or mood challenges, Christopher offers practical strategies and supportive coaching. He helps people figure out next steps, plan small changes, and stay more steady during stressful times.
Approaches that fit online family and parenting work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the person's lead, asks reflective questions, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a safe place to talk through parenting stress or relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and then suggest approaches that fit. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time until the client feels the work is productive.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and people with limited time. Video calls let therapists and clients see nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be more convenient for short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around real-life routines.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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