Chanin Santini, LCSW
Compassionate therapist for relationship and emotional challenges
Book with ChaninWorks with
- Anger
- Intimacy-related issues
How Chanin works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California, Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Chanin
Chanin Santini is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship and emotional challenges. She focuses on issues like intimacy, communication problems, anxiety, anger, and stress. Many clients come for help with self-esteem, grief, or adjusting to life changes.
She uses straightforward, practical conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions aim to clarify patterns, try new ways of communicating, and reduce worry or impulsive reactions.
Background and approach
Chanin blends listening with tools people can use between appointments. With 15 years of experience, Chanin has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, and sexual identity matters. She also supports people dealing with body image, fertility or cancer-related stress, and the pressures first responders face.
Her focus includes attachment issues and kink-aware care for those who seek it. Her methods draw on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness practices, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work. That mix helps people learn new coping skills and improve communication.
Chanin explains tools in plain language and practices alongside the person exploring them. Sessions are offered in English and take place with attention to each person’s pace and goals. She works from California as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - and aims to create a respectful space for honest conversation and steady progress.
What Chanin works with
Everything Chanin lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Chanin's practice.
- Intimacy-related issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Chanin lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's perspective and goals. It means the therapist listens deeply, reflects what is said, and helps people decide the next steps that feel right for them. This approach supports work on intimacy, communication, and rebuilding trust after trauma.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, anger, and depressive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, useful for people who struggle with outbursts or relationship conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. Changes happen step by step and the plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick touch-ins between appointments, making it simpler to practice skills in real time.
Questions people ask about Chanin
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
She helps people with intimacy and relationship issues, anxiety, depression, anger, stress, addictions, trauma, and self-esteem concerns.
What is the therapist's style in sessions?
Sessions are client-centered and practical, combining listening with hands-on strategies from CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and relationship work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 15 years of experience working with a wide range of emotional and relationship concerns.
Where is the therapist licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LCSW and practices in California with the credential listed as CA LCSW and PA LCSW.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I have sessions from another country?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for therapy sessions?
Sessions can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to start, use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.