About Ricardo
Ricardo Santiago is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 22 years of experience. He offers calm, direct support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, and ADHD. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
He works with adults navigating major life changes such as career shifts, relationship breakups, and parenting strain. Sessions often center on improving communication, managing impulsivity, and rebuilding confidence.
Background and approach
Ricardo pays attention to how past family relationships affect present choices. Therapy sessions mix short-term problem solving with deeper work on trauma, abandonment, and grief. He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to the concern at hand.
Conversations are aimed at clear strategies people can try between sessions. Clients frequently bring worries about work stress, compassion fatigue, or substance use. Ricardo helps unpack triggers and build routines that reduce overwhelm.
He also guides people through forgiveness, guilt, and issues tied to adoption or fatherhood when those come up. Many people come for help with ADHD-related struggles like organization, impulsivity, and focus. Ricardo frames these concerns alongside mood and relationship patterns to create manageable plans.
He encourages small, consistent changes and checks progress over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Ricardo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach he draws on emphasizes skill-building for emotional regulation and impulsivity, helping people manage strong feelings and reduce reactive behaviors. Another approach centers on processing trauma and painful memories at a gradual pace, which helps people lower symptom intensity and reclaim daily routines.Finding the right way of working together is part of therapy. He will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean starting with skill practice, then moving into deeper trauma work as trust and coping increase.
Online sessions offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual connection for in-depth work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity and try strategies in everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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