Shereen Santos

Shereen Santos is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Oklahoma with three years of clinical experience. She works with young adults and adults who are navigating stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. Her profile notes life purpose and multicultural concerns among her focus areas.

She frames difficulties as responses to earlier experiences. Instead of asking what is wrong, she looks at what happened and what people learned to do to survive. That perspective is meant to make behavior and patterns easier to understand.

Her approach draws on psychodynamic ideas and an Internal Family Systems-informed framework to identify the rules and beliefs formed in childhood. She helps clients trace how those patterns continue to affect relationships, feelings, and behavior today.

She also brings neuroscience-informed perspectives from her work with neurofeedback and brain mapping. That background informs psychoeducation about how chronic stress and threat responses can affect the brain and nervous system alongside psychological factors.

Cultural context matters in her work. She notes experience with clients across cultures and attends to how family, faith, community, and expectations shape identity and coping. Clients are invited to include those parts of themselves in sessions.

In addition to counseling, she has worked as a certified life coach with leaders, executives, and pastors, addressing the overlaps between mental health, brain function, and spiritual concerns. She focuses on helping people recognize old patterns, build new skills, and expand their choices in how they respond to life.

How her approaches translate to online work

Shereen combines psychodynamic ideas with an Internal Family Systems-informed framework. Psychodynamic methods look at the patterns and beliefs formed in childhood and how they affect current relationships and feelings. The IFS-informed perspective helps identify inner parts and the roles they took on to protect and survive; that can make reactions and self-criticism easier to understand.

She also uses a neuroscience-informed lens from neurofeedback and brain mapping experience. That perspective provides psychoeducation about how chronic stress and threat responses show up in the nervous system and influence mood and behavior, which can be helpful alongside talk-based work.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. She works collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean focusing more on mapping patterns, on practical skills, or on learning how the nervous system responds, and the plan can change over time.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten commute time, or allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.