About Taryn
Taryn Santos is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings 11 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and self-esteem struggles. Her work centers on listening closely and helping clients find practical steps forward.
Clients find sessions focused on clear goals and gentle exploration. Santos uses tools from cognitive behavioral and acceptance and commitment approaches to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships with self and others.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions often include skill practice, small experiments between meetings, and reflection on how habits affect daily life. This makes therapy feel like a series of manageable steps rather than an overwhelming task.
She also brings attention to family and life-stage issues such as parenting, adoption and foster care, blended family matters, aging concerns, and family-of-origin wounds. Work can include communication skills, boundary setting, and coping plans for tough moments. Santos welcomes clients working through trauma, abuse, addiction concerns, grief, or major life changes.
She integrates worry-management strategies, distress tolerance skills, and values-based planning so people can build a life that fits their goals and values.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small committed actions toward those values. It helps when life feels off-course or motivation is low by connecting choices to what someone truly cares about.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed each other and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into steps that can be practiced in daily life.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. This approach can help people improve communication, repair closeness, and understand repeated relationship patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work, and chat or text works for quick check-ins or brief skill coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic tools and exercises as in-person work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English