Karen Delos Santos , LMHC

Karen Delos Santos is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with individuals on self-esteem, parenting stress, and issues that can make daily life feel overwhelming. Karen speaks English and practices from Florida. Her approach is straightforward and practical. She helps people name what is hard, notice how it shows up day to day, and try small changes that add up. Sessions focus on improving communication, coping with caregiver strain, and rebuilding a sense of self after shame or guilt. Karen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma symptoms, social anxiety, and persistent low mood. She supports people dealing with family of origin issues, codependency, jealousy, and money-related stress. Work often includes emotion regulation, clearer boundaries, and repairing relationship patterns. Many clients come with midlife questions, a search for life purpose, or feelings of emptiness. Karen helps people sort through those concerns and set achievable goals. She also assists parents dealing with parenting pressures and the emotional fallout of caregiving. Practical skills and steady support are central to her style. She listens for patterns, offers concrete tools, and helps people practice new ways of relating. The aim is calmer daily living, clearer choices, and a stronger sense of self.

Evidence-based care and flexible online sessions

Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One approach helps people identify patterns in their thoughts and behaviors and practice new responses to anxiety and low mood; this is useful for stress, social anxiety, and depression. Another approach addresses emotional wounds from past relationships and family of origin issues by helping people process difficult feelings and rebuild healthier relational habits; this helps with codependency, guilt, and shame.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals and preferences, check in about what is working, and adjust the plan over time so it fits the client’s needs.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let sessions feel close to an in-person meeting, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins or shorter sessions, and text-based messaging helps when someone prefers writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on steady progress.