About Sandra
Sandra Musielewicz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. Sandra emphasizes practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier.
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals. Sessions often include learning new thinking skills, practicing emotion regulation, and trying small experiments between meetings.
Background and approach
Sandra draws on several evidence-informed approaches to shape sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice values and take meaningful action.
Attachment-based work is used when relationship patterns and past hurts are getting in the way. People who reach out may be coping with relationship or intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, anger, or major life changes. Sandra also addresses concerns such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, dissociation, and divorce.
She works with members of the LGBT community and both neurotypical and neurodivergent clients. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can pick what fits their day. Sandra helps clients set a pace that feels doable and builds skills over time.
The focus is on steady progress and practical strategies that fit everyday life.
Approach and access for online therapy
Sandra uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice thought patterns that increase anxiety or depression and teaches practical steps to change those patterns. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on noticing difficult feelings, clarifying personal values, and taking small actions that line up with what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a workday or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins, homework review, or when a quieter format is preferred. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on steady skill building and practical coping tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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