- Internal Family Systems informed
- Neuroscience perspective
- Multicultural awareness
About Shereen
Shereen Santos is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Oklahoma with three years of clinical experience working with adults and young adults. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression, and also pays attention to attachment issues, guilt and shame, life purpose, multicultural concerns, post-traumatic stress, and self-love.
Shereen frames difficult symptoms as responses that often have a history. She asks what happened and what people learned to do to survive, rather than assuming something is simply wrong. That perspective shapes how she and a client look at behaviors, relationships, and emotional patterns.
Her work draws on Internal Family Systems-informed ideas and psychodynamic thinking to look at conscious and unconscious rules formed in childhood. She talks with clients about how those rules show up now and affect relationships and how people feel about themselves. She also uses psychoeducation about how the brain and nervous system respond to prolonged stress.
Shereen has training in neurofeedback and brain mapping and brings a neuroscience-informed viewpoint to sessions. She explains how neurological and physiological responses can relate to emotional symptoms, and when helpful she connects that information to practical steps clients can try.
Multicultural awareness is part of her approach. She acknowledges how family, culture, faith, and community shape identity and coping. She also has experience coaching leaders and pastors, which informs her work with people balancing professional or vocational roles and mental health concerns.
She aims to help people understand patterns that once served a purpose, build new options for responding, and increase internal stability so they can make different choices going forward.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Shereen uses Internal Family Systems-informed ideas to help people identify parts of themselves that carry beliefs and emotional loads. That approach helps when someone wants to understand inner conflicts, protectors, and vulnerable parts that influence choices and relationships.She also draws on psychodynamic concepts to look at unconscious rules and patterns formed in childhood. This work focuses on how past experiences shape current reactions and on noticing repeating relationship patterns rather than on labeling a problem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she uses psychoeducation about the nervous system when it clarifies what a person is experiencing.
The therapist's biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let people join from locations that reduce travel time. Licensed professionals often use these practical benefits to help maintain regular appointments alongside work or family commitments.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
Oklahoma
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, and depression, with additional focus on attachment issues, guilt and shame, life purpose, multicultural concerns, post-traumatic stress, and self-love.
How would she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
She uses an IFS-informed and psychodynamic perspective to look at patterns and the history behind them, and she offers psychoeducation about how the brain and nervous system react to prolonged stress.
What experience does she have?
She has three years of clinical experience working primarily with young adults and adults, and has also worked with leaders in executive and pastoral settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
Shereen holds the LPC credential (Licensed Professional Counselor) and practices in Oklahoma.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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