Karen Delos Santos, LMHC

Karen Delos Santos is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting concerns, self-esteem, and depression. Karen writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide people through emotional wounds like guilt, shame, and post-traumatic stress. Sessions often focus on improving communication, untangling family of origin issues, and rebuilding self-love after hardship. The work is goal-oriented and rooted in everyday life problems. Karen supports clients through life transitions, including early adulthood and midlife shifts. She addresses money and financial worries, career stress, and the search for life purpose. She also helps people manage caregiving strain and the frustration of codependent patterns. In sessions she pays attention to relationship dynamics and how they shape daily stress. She helps people identify unhelpful patterns such as jealousy or chronic people-pleasing. Practical skills for healthier boundaries and clearer communication are a common focus. Karen practices in Florida and offers services in English. Her approach is collaborative: she helps people set achievable steps and checks in on progress. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the continue button on this profile to complete a matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve relationships. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and negative self-talk. Trauma-informed work helps people make sense of painful memories and build coping strategies for stress responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods based on what is helping and what feels doable in daily life.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, remove travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people maintain continuity of care during life changes by offering more scheduling flexibility than in-person visits.