About Sandra
Sandra Rico is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, affirming space for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and changes in life. Sandra speaks English and Spanish and helps people from different backgrounds feel understood.
Her work focuses on practical skills. She uses Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing are part of how she supports coping and motivation.
Background and approach
Sandra assists people dealing with relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strain, and family conflict. She also supports those facing trauma, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and attention concerns like ADHD. Her practice includes help for issues around body image, eating and sleeping, and substance use.
Sessions aim to build clearer communication, stronger emotional regulation, and more reliable routines. Sandra often breaks down goals into small, doable steps and checks in on progress each session. She emphasizes collaboration and practical change rather than long lectures.
People can expect straightforward talk, guided exercises, and tools to use between sessions. Sandra tailors her approach to each person’s situation and cultural background. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Sandra commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust so people feel heard and can set their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce worry and improve mood.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and sharpen focus. These practices are brief and can be done between sessions to manage anxiety and improve sleep.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra collaborates with each person to pick techniques that fit their goals, values, and daily routine. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods based on what is helping most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you practice communication skills and read visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching, or when writing thoughts helps clarity. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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