- Integrative therapy focus
- Strengths-based approach
- Practical coping skills
About Sandra
Sandra takes an integrative, person-centered approach. She leans on the client’s strengths and builds a trusting relationship first. Sessions focus on practical skills, coping strategies, and clear steps clients can try between meetings. She adapts methods as needs change rather than following a single fixed plan.
Her background includes training in several therapeutic methods that support mood and behavior change. Sandra mixes cognitive behavioral ideas for managing thoughts and habits with mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation is needed. Motivational interviewing helps when making changes around substance use or other behaviors.
Clients often bring concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, chronic illness, caregiving burden, or work and career issues. Sandra also addresses complicated grief, bipolar mood concerns, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. She explains options clearly and helps people break down goals into small, manageable steps.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to the person. Sandra encourages questions and works with each client to find approaches that fit their life. She invites people to try a first session to see how the relationship and methods feel.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.