About Wildelia
Dr. Wildelia "Delia" Santiago helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 13 years of professional experience.
Dr. Santiago creates a calm space where people can talk honestly about their feelings and worries. She uses clear, practical methods to help clients manage strong emotions like anger, shame, and emptiness.
Sessions often focus on learning skills to cope with anxiety, work through grief, and rebuild confidence after loss or betrayal.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and supportive, with an emphasis on small, doable steps. Her work addresses problems tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication breakdowns. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence, infidelity, and separation.
Treatment balances immediate coping strategies and longer term changes in thinking and behavior. Dr. Santiago draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
She uses these tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses in daily life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Spanish-language sessions are available for people who prefer to speak in Spanish.
She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick the format that fits their routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change stressful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing harmful reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on skill teaching, values-based work, or short-term problem solving and can change course as needed.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people touch base between sessions and get support without scheduling a full call. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, family, and travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- Spanish