Andrea Santiago is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Chronic Pain, Coping Skills, Eating Disorders, Family Conflict, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sexual Addiction, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
Life is hard enough all on its own. It’s even harder when you’re using all your energy to fight off things like anxiety or depression. The space it takes up in your head is unreal. You do a good job of appearing to have it together but inside your head it’s LOUD. Whether the problem is excessive worry, or doubt, it’s always there, lurking, waiting to sabotage a decent day. It makes you snap at people and you don’t even know why. Maybe it shows up as anger, irritability, social isolation- however it happens it’s not doing anything good for you. It interferes with life overall. Living like this is exhausting and unnecessary. Life with real coping skills looks different. It’s not to say that the stress magically disappears, but with some new skills, your responses to stress can be completely different. Imagine being able to clearly talk things through rather than blow up and have to apologize! You can get to that place, but you can’t get there without some help. While therapy has a reputa