Daphne Santiful

Daphne Santiful is an LCSW with 32 years of clinical experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes. She offers a calm, practical presence and focuses on helping people find clearer priorities and steadier routines during difficult seasons.

Her approach is warm and attentive. She listens for each person’s goals and tailors simple strategies to fit daily life. Sessions often center on improving communication, reducing social anxiety, and working through family and relationship tensions without jargon.

Daphne draws on a mix of methods to meet real-world needs. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and acceptance-based work to build values-driven choices. Motivational interviewing helps when clients are weighing change or feeling stuck.

Over three decades, Daphne has supported people through workplace stress, midlife transitions, divorce and separation, caregiver strain, and the complicated feelings that follow infidelity or family conflict. She also addresses issues like codependency, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions of life purpose.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations, practical tools to try between sessions, and collaborative goal-setting. Daphne practices in North Carolina as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English. She does not accept international clients.

How Daphne Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for navigating life changes, reducing avoidance, and finding clearer priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that increase stress or anxiety and then practicing new, more helpful responses. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and calm the mind during stressful moments.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Daphne listens to what matters most and tries methods that fit each person's goals and day-to-day life. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps and what feels workable for the client.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time so therapy feels more manageable. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and mindfulness practices to an online setting so you can practice tools between meetings and apply them in everyday situations.