About Michaela
Michaela Sandy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She focuses on building trust and a warm working relationship so clients feel heard and respected. Her approach aims to make change feel practical and possible for everyday life.
She blends Solution-Focused Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people set clear goals and try small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Using CBT, she helps clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and practice new coping skills. The methods are adapted to each person so sessions stay relevant and useful. Michaela has spent much of her career supporting young adults and caregivers through challenges like school stress, identity questions, relationship strain, and changes at home.
She also helps people facing panic attacks, low self-esteem, isolation, and the fallout of separation or loss. Communication skills, boundary-setting, and rebuilding trust are common themes in her work. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
She emphasizes strengths and practical tools that can be used between meetings. Conversations are straightforward, focused on what can change now and how to build resilience for the future. Michaela practices in California and offers sessions in English.
She aims to help people feel more capable, confident, and ready to handle what comes next.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
She commonly uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients pick a clear goal and take small, practical steps toward it. This approach highlights existing strengths and creates short-term plans that can reduce overwhelm and build momentum.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence one another. CBT offers concrete exercises for reducing anxiety, managing panic attacks, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns so daily life feels more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people meet face-to-face when that helps; phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in with less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, quick coping strategies, or scheduling check-ins between longer meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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