About Sandra
Sandra DeCarolis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with ten years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and mood concerns. Sandra uses straightforward, skill-based work so clients can see what changes might help in daily life.
Sandra trained at Regis University for a master’s in counseling after studying psychology at CU Denver. Her background includes working with adults across a wide age range and a variety of concerns such as trauma, depression, bipolar spectrum issues, and substance use.
Background and approach
She draws on many therapy methods to match each person’s needs. Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She focuses on building trust first, then uses a mix of strategies to help people manage symptoms and reach goals.
That can mean practicing new coping skills, talking through relationship and communication problems, or addressing sleep and eating disruptions. Sandra emphasizes practical tools alongside insight. She often blends cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills with deeper psychodynamic perspectives when that fits the client.
Motivational approaches help people find reasons to change and keep moving forward. Clients can expect clear conversation, skill teaching, and attention to strengths. Sandra aims to make therapy manageable and relevant to everyday life.
She supports people through transitions, loss, and long-term stressors while helping them build resilience and better day-to-day functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sandra commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. CBT is practical and goal-focused, often including short at-home exercises to build new habits.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT supplies clear skills for managing intense feelings, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and handling crises without making impulsive choices.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routine, then suggest which methods to try first. Adjustments are made over time based on what works and what feels acceptable to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats work for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make scheduling simpler and help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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