About Sandi
Sandi Hines is a licensed clinical social worker in Tennessee with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are anxious, stressed, grieving, or facing relationship and family problems. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth.
She invites clients to take small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier days. Sandi listens first and then works with each person to find practical strategies. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed. Her style is client-centered. That means she treats each person as an individual and adapts sessions to what matters most to them.
Expect straightforward conversation, active listening, and a focus on building daily coping skills that really fit your life. Sandi also brings elements of attachment-based work and dialectical behavior techniques to help with relationship strain, emotional regulation, and connection. These approaches can support people dealing with abandonment issues, parenting stress, caregiving concerns, or transitions such as divorce and separation.
Overall, she aims to strengthen self-esteem, increase resilience, and help clients manage the things that get in the way of living the life they want. She welcomes questions and works alongside people as they try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
How Sandi’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Sandi uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions often involve specific exercises and homework you can work on between meetings to see real progress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another part of her work; it helps people focus on values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable emotions are present.She also brings attachment-based ideas into the room to address how early and current relationship patterns affect trust and closeness. That work can help with communication problems, commitment issues, and feelings of abandonment. Deciding which approach to use is a team effort - the therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods until you find what fits. The plan can change as needs evolve, and sessions are collaborative throughout.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let you work face-to-face from wherever you are, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent as life gets busy, and they allow people to practice new skills in real time between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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