Emily-Rose Santamaria is a licensed clinician in Connecticut with four years of professional experience. She works with clients ranging in age from 7 to 60, addressing concerns such as stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, mood disorders and depression, ADD/ADHD, relationship and attachment issues, family conflict, grief, intimacy-related difficulties, parenting challenges, career concerns, self-esteem, addictions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

She is a female therapist who provides affirmative care for LGBT clients and works with gay clients; she identifies as non-religious and practices from a liberal perspective. Her credential is CT LCSW 012557, which denotes her status as a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut.

Emily-Rose’s therapeutic style is warm, interactive, and collaborative – she sees therapy as a team effort aimed at meeting each client’s goals. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in clinical work and avoids stigmatizing labels.

Her approach is eclectic, drawing primarily from cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, dialectical behavior, and attachment-based therapies. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to the individual needs of each person and maintains a person-centered, strength-based, and solution-focused perspective.

She holds that clients are the experts of their own stories and that people possess strengths that help them address life’s challenges. Emily-Rose acknowledges the courage it takes to begin therapy and supports clients as they take that first step toward change.