About Sabrina
Sabrina Gonzalez is a licensed social worker practicing in New Mexico with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her style is respectful and warm, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies that fit daily life, such as skills for managing stress and ways to handle intense emotions. She adjusts the pace and focus to match individual needs and goals.
Sabrina draws from several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take meaningful action, and attachment-based work to improve closeness and safety in relationships. These tools are chosen to address issues like trauma, grief, self-esteem, parenting worries, and career stress.
Over two decades she has supported people facing family conflict, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver strain, and first responder challenges. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and helps people build skills they can use outside sessions. The tone in the room is compassionate and direct.
To begin, she asks about what brought a person in and what a better life would look like. From there she and the client set clear steps and check progress along the way. This helps make change feel tangible and manageable.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thinking patterns and behaviors, teaching concrete skills to reduce worry and manage mood and stress symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sabrina collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in and adjusts the plan as needed, so therapy stays focused on what will help most in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while using the chosen approaches to build new skills and insights.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Vermont, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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