Casey Santora is a passionate and dedicated licensed social worker with expertise working with children, adolescents and adults to learn techniques and tools which will help them to lead happy and healthy lives.
Casey specializes working with children and parents in areas including anxiety management, behavior modification, emotional regulation, trauma, aggression, ADHD, effective communication, oppositional defiance and more! Casey takes great pride in working with children, adolescents and parents and understands the level of care and gentleness that is involved. Casey also works with the neurodivergent population.
Casey works closely with clients, as a team, to establish specific goals and areas they would like to work towards and/or improve in. Casey prides herself on open, whole, transparent communication and is collaborative when working with clients to establish individualized treatment goals which align with their values. When working with children, Casey forms a close-knit relationship with parents so everyone can work as a team for the benefit of the child.
Casey truly values the importance of a client-therapist relationship and creates a safe, comfortable, holistic and judgment-free place for clients to share their feelings, struggles and areas they wish to improve in. She understands the difficulty, as well as any interpersonal feelings that come along with attending therapy; she empowers and commends all individuals on their journey to self-improvement.
Casey earned both her Masters Degree in Social Work and Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Criminology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Casey is a proud life-time member of the Phi Alpha Delta Iota Rho Chapter that works to promote humanistic goals and ideas, such as helping people free themselves from disabling assumptions, emphasizing growth and self-actualization, advocating for human rights, free speech, progressive policies, developing a strong and healthy sense of self, exploring feelings, finding meaning, and focusing on strengths.
Casey is more than happy to schedule a consultation!