About Sandra
Sandra McQuinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on practical care for stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, career concerns, and life changes. She uses clear, down-to-earth language and aims to help people take manageable steps toward feeling better.
Sandra began her career in education after earning a bachelor’s degree in education, then moved into counseling with a master’s degree in counseling. Her background includes roles as a school counselor, prison counselor, drug and alcohol rehab counselor, and therapist at a suboxone clinic.
Background and approach
She has also worked with workforce programs and with parents and children involved in foster care. Her clinical experience spans anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, addiction, and major life transitions. She has taught classes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy and often combines methods to fit each person’s needs.
Sandra values practical tools that people can use between sessions. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her. She blends client-centered methods with CBT, DBT, and mindfulness practices to help people reduce overwhelm and build coping skills.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding direction or making changes. Sandra also has experience with equine-assisted and pet-assisted approaches and believes animal connection can support emotional healing. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aiming to meet people where they are and help them move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship, so sessions concentrate on the person’s goals and what feels most helpful in their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple, structured skills to change thinking and behavior patterns, which works well through video or phone sessions with homework between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotional regulation and coping skills, offering concrete tools people can practice during the week.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan as needed so the work matches preferences and progress. Decisions about which techniques to use are made together rather than prescribed up front.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows short check-ins or moment-by-moment coaching, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief reflections. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep consistent work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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