About Debra
Dr. Debra Sandler helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, eating or sleeping problems, and other life changes.
Dr. Sandler uses clear, straightforward guidance so people can start making small changes right away. She listens in a calm, friendly way and works with each person to build a simple plan.
Sessions focus on practical skills for handling strong emotions like anger, impulsivity, or shame.
Background and approach
Communication and boundary skills are offered for people wanting better interactions at work or at home. Dr. Sandler has a long clinical career.
She earned a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from Nova Southeastern University. She has been in independent practice for over thirty years and brings 39 years of overall experience as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW. Her approach mixes evidence-based techniques with a person-centered style.
That means she matches tools to what a person needs, often using strategies from cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, and skills from dialectical approaches. Sessions are delivered in ways that fit modern life, including video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Dr.
Sandler works from Florida and offers services in English, including to international clients. If someone wants steady, practical support for anxiety and related concerns, she helps them build usable tools and clear next steps.
Approach-driven online care for anxiety and life stress
Dr. Sandler often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try alternative behaviors. CBT is practical and task-focused, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with day-to-day problems.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and to take action based on personal values. This approach can be useful when someone wants to reduce avoidance and build a meaningful routine.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Conversations in early sessions focus on what feels most useful and which techniques to try next.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is helpful for longer therapy sessions and when visual cues matter, phone works well with limited bandwidth, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging can support short, ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Florida
- Languages
- English
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