Daphne Santiful, LCSW

Daphne Santiful is a licensed clinical social worker with 32 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed by stress, or facing depression and low self-esteem. Parents and those wrestling with life changes will find a practical, steady approach. She offers clear, calm guidance without complicated jargon.

Her work focuses on real skills people can use between sessions. Daphne uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard.

Daphne pays attention to family and relationship patterns, including blended family issues, communication problems, infidelity, and divorce or separation. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose or midlife changes.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Daphne listens, helps set practical goals, and teaches strategies for managing emotions, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence. She emphasizes small, sustainable steps that add up over time.

Clients come away with clearer priorities and tools to handle everyday challenges. Daphne works from North Carolina as an LCSW and offers services in English. Her long experience is used to tailor approaches so people feel more capable and hopeful about next steps.

Approaches and online care that fit your life

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then try small experiments to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress to build practical coping skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most and learning to take actions that match those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can help when life changes feel overwhelming or when people feel stuck.

Daphne works with clients to find the best mix of approaches. Figuring out what fits is a collaborative process - she listens to goals and preferences, suggests methods to try, and adapts plans as progress is made. The aim is to choose tools that feel useful and realistic for each person.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people have deeper conversations with visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity during life transitions.