Ricardo Santiago
Helping parents and adults regain balance
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ricardo
Ricardo Santiago is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 22 years of clinical experience. He offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship challenges. He writes and talks plainly so parents and caregivers can understand next steps.
Ricardo centers his work on real-life problems like parenting, career strain, and coping with major life changes. He focuses on helping clients sort through family dynamics and improve communication.
Background and approach
His background includes long-term work with people managing trauma, substance issues, mood struggles such as bipolar, and attention challenges like ADHD. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking and more effective day-to-day habits. Ricardo adapts his style to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
He blends evidence-based techniques to address emotional symptoms and behavior patterns. The goal is practical tools for handling anger, impulsivity, grief, and stressors that affect family life. Over two decades in practice have given him experience with adoption and foster care concerns, fatherhood issues, and family-of-origin problems.
He also supports people working through infidelity, divorce and separation, and commitment worries. People meet him for coaching around career, forgiveness work, and rebuilding self-esteem after setbacks. Sessions are available in English and offered online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Evidence-based approaches for online family and parenting support
Ricardo uses established, evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life changes. One common approach is skills-oriented work that teaches practical coping strategies for anxiety, anger, and stress. These sessions emphasize steps people can use immediately at home and in family interactions.He also employs trauma-informed methods to help people process past hurt and reduce its impact on current relationships. This approach involves pacing the work to match what a person can handle while rebuilding safety in interactions and communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ricardo collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they review what’s working and adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family schedules. Clients can meet by video or phone, or use live chat or text messaging when that better fits daily life. These options make it easier to attend sessions, practice new skills between meetings, and keep consistent momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Ricardo
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- Stop at any point