About Sandra
Sandra Grace Martinez is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 14 years of experience to straightforward, practical work with clients. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to meet people where they are.
Sandra listens first and adapts the conversation to each person's needs. She helps people talk through trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship or intimacy worries.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with life changes, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and work-related stress. Sessions emphasize simple skills and real-world tools. Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to spot thinking patterns and build new habits.
Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about trust, closeness, and relationship patterns. Sandra also draws on client-centered and Jungian perspectives to help people find personal meaning and strength. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are a focus.
The approach combines short-term skills with exploration of deeper themes as needed. She invites people to take the first step at their own pace. Conversations are practical, calm, and focused on clear goals.
Sandra aims to help people build manageable routines and better ways of coping so everyday life feels more livable.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust. Online sessions can bring these themes into view through focused conversation and reflection to improve how people connect with others. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT translates into concrete homework, thought records, and short skill practices between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit. Clients and the therapist make decisions together and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coaching, and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, family, or health demands while working on anxiety and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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