Emily-Rose Santamaria, LCSW - Therapist in Connecticut

About Emily-Rose

Emily-Rose Santamaria is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with four years of experience. She works with people across a wide age range and helps with family and parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, mood issues, trauma, and behavior challenges. Her style feels warm and interactive, and she treats each person with respect and compassion.

She focuses on building a collaborative relationship. Sessions are practical and grounded. Emily-Rose listens first, then helps set small, reachable goals that fit the family's real life.

Background and approach

She avoids stigmatizing labels and centers on each person’s strengths. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.

She also brings attachment-based perspectives to improve relationships and family patterns. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies are added when they fit a person's needs. These tools help with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and staying present during stressful moments.

Emily-Rose tailors techniques to each client rather than following a fixed script. Parents and caregivers often find her focused on concrete steps for home and school life. She helps with communication issues, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, and attachment-related worries.

The work aims to build clearer routines, safer interactions, and more dependable connection. Emily-Rose emphasizes that therapy is a joint process. She offers a supportive space to talk through hard moments and to practice new ways of handling them.

Her goal is to help families move toward manageable, lasting change.

Approaches that guide online family and parenting work

Emily-Rose commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns in their thoughts and behaviors and try small changes that improve day-to-day functioning. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many parenting challenges tied to reactive responses.

She also draws from attachment-based therapy to look at how family history and early relationships shape current interactions. This lens helps when communication, trust, or bonding are strained within families or between parents and children.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process and happens together. Emily-Rose works collaboratively to match strategies to a family's goals, preferences, and rhythms. She adjusts plans as progress is made or new needs appear.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let the therapist see family interactions and coach skills in real time. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit moments of support into a hectic day or to follow up between live sessions. These options aim to make consistent care more manageable for caregivers and young people alike.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Emily-Rose works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, and family problems.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her approach is warm and interactive. She treats therapy as a team effort and focuses on respect, sensitivity, and practical steps toward goals.

What is her professional background?

She is a licensed clinical social worker with four years of professional experience working with clients across ages 7 to 60.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She holds a Connecticut LCSW license under the number CT LCSW 012557 and practices from Connecticut.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can clients outside the United States work with her?

International clients are accepted.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How do I begin working with her?

Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

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

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