About Derron Santin
I am committed to help reduce suffering in individuals and couples, to serve my community, and in turn help make the world a safer, more connected, and conscious place.
I have worked with the full socio-economic spectrum, including many years serving the homeless, disenfranchised, and seriously psychiatrically disabled. I have provided counseling and therapy to numerous ethnicities, cultures, and sexual identities. Out of this experience I have developed a broad capacity to be with others’ pain, and it is my natural inclination to want to heal that pain.
In my work as a therapist I am in congruence with who I am at my core. I live authentically and enjoy teaching this to others. I am dedicated to this path and I love it!
My Style
What excites me is meeting and working with people who are curious and ready for change, who are prepared to embrace a significant shift in what it means to be alive. I provide depth therapy that is gentle and supportive, but also stays real, and it can be challenging. If you’ve tried therapy and it wasn’t challenging, my guess is that it was not helpful.
New states of growth often emerge with discomfort, and I am not the kind of therapist to sit back while you navigate through it alone; you’ve had enough of that. I’m active, gifted in attuning to my clients’ in-the-moment needs, and I create an experience that alternates between stillness and action, contemplation and excitement. I strive to be fully present and right with you as you begin to open to yourself and your potential.
I can help you develop a heightened awareness of your internal experience. This will help inform you of who you are, when it is safe to open, and when it is best to take better care and protect yourself. I work with the mind, the body, and the emotions, an integrative approach that leads to a fuller experience. I strive for trust, honesty, and work from a strong intuitive base: from this I offer you the opportunity to expand.
My Clients
Some of my clients know exactly what they need to get clear about, while others come to therapy unsure about where to begin. What is most important is that you start where you are. Often that can be enough to start the process.
Common reasons for coming to therapy include:
- depression and the loss of pleasure
- an ongoing undercurrent of anxiety, and fear of the future
- attracting and being attracted to the wrong types of people
- denying yourself your feelings or experience
- childhood neglect, which prevents fullness in current relationships
- mother and/or father wounds
- struggles to create and maintain boundaries
- addictive or obsessive patterns of avoidance
- negative body image
- eating disorders
- guilt and shame
- working through trauma, sexual abuse
- the pain of grief and loss
- dissatisfaction with work
- major life transitions
- defining spirituality
In addition to the above, I work fluently with artists, writers, and filmmakers who wish to transcend the limitations of the mind and create with increased freedom and without limits.