About Ricardo
Ricardo Santiago is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 22 years of experience. He focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and problems with self-esteem. He aims for a straightforward, compassionate approach that lets people talk through what matters most to them.
Ricardo works with individuals coping with relationship struggles, parenting challenges, career stress, and major life changes. He often helps people manage anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD symptoms, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
He also addresses complex concerns such as forgiveness, family of origin issues, and struggles around commitment and communication. In sessions he uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs. Conversations can include practical strategies for coping, skills for managing impulses, and steps to rebuild trust after infidelity or separation.
He pays attention to patterns that come from adoption, abandonment, or fatherhood issues and helps people find clearer ways forward. Ricardo combines a calm, direct style with steady support. He helps clients set goals, try new behaviors, and track what works over time.
The aim is to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Ricardo uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches coping strategies for anxiety, anger, and impulsivity. These techniques break problems into manageable steps and give clear tools to practice between sessions. Another approach emphasises processing past hurt and trauma in a paced way that helps reduce its day-to-day impact; this often blends talk-based work with behavioral steps to rebuild trust and safety in life.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most helpful, test methods in session, and adjust plans based on progress and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to find what actually helps for issues like addiction, relationship problems, or career stress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people keep momentum between sessions, share quick updates, or work through brief coaching tasks. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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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