William "Eevee" Santos

Hi, I'm Eevee. (Yep, like the Pokémon, lol) I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, and I believe therapy works best when you can show up as your whole self, knowing that your experiences, identities, values, culture, and strengths will be respected and welcomed.

As a Black, LGBTQ+ identified, gender-nonconforming therapist, my own lived experiences have shaped how I understand identity, belonging, authenticity, community, and the ways our environments can influence our well-being. These experiences inform my commitment to providing culturally responsive care and creating a therapeutic space where you don't have to hide or minimize important parts of who you are.

My work is collaborative, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that people have an incredible capacity for growth. I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges, identity, stress, and other experiences that can make life feel difficult or disconnected.

At the heart of my work is a simple philosophy: I am less interested in helping you simply get through life. I want to support you as you Grow Through Life—developing greater understanding, skills, courage, and connection along the way.

I approach therapy as two experts working together. You are the expert on your life! Your experiences, culture, relationships, values, strengths, and hopes. I bring clinical knowledge, therapeutic tools, and a perspective that can help us explore what may be getting in the way. Together, we create therapy rather than having therapy simply “done” to you.

I often describe my role as sitting in the passenger seat while you remain behind the wheel. I may help you notice patterns, offer another route, ask you to slow down and look at something differently, or encourage you when the road feels uncertain—but you ultimately determine where we are going. My goal is to help you develop the awareness, skills, and courage to move increasingly in the direction of the life and values that matter to you.

My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and flexible. Depending on your needs, our work may incorporate evidence-based strategies, psychoeducation, reflection, creativity, humor, and practical skills you can carry with you beyond the therapy room.

Our first session is an opportunity for us to begin getting to know one another—not for you to arrive with everything figured out. We'll talk about what brings you to therapy, what's happening in your life, what matters to you, and what you hope might be different. I'll also ask questions to better understand your experiences, strengths, relationships, culture, and the environments that have shaped you.

You can expect a warm, collaborative space where curiosity is welcome and you have permission to ask questions, give feedback, laugh, reflect, and simply be human. We'll begin identifying what you would like to work toward and how we might approach that work together.

Most importantly, I want you to leave our first conversation with a clearer sense of whether I feel like the right therapist for you.

Therapy requires your participation, but it also requires trust—and that is something we build together.