Sandra Santana

Walking into Sandra Santana’s practice for the first time, clients are met not with a clipboard and a checklist but with a genuine willingness to listen — to sit with whatever has gone unsaid, sometimes for years. Dr. Santana, a licensed clinical psychologist based in Valencia, California, understands that reaching out takes real courage, and she does not take that lightly. She works with teenagers, adults, and older adults navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and family conflict, as well as those healing from abuse and managing mood, sleep, or impulse-control disorders.

Her approach is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy, though she adapts it to each person. She may help a client examine the negative self-talk running quietly in the background — the same inner voice that can grow louder when someone spends hours scrolling through curated lives and still feels unseen — or she may focus on building concrete skills: setting limits, communicating more clearly, finding steadier footing day to day. Processing the past matters to her, and so does learning how to live better right now. Both belong in the room.

Dr. Santana holds a Psy.D. from Rutgers University and has spent nearly two decades working across clinical settings. She offers online sessions and works with clients on a private-pay basis, providing documentation for PPO reimbursement upon request.