About Sandra
Dr. Sandra Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, depression, and life transitions. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, and career questions.
Dr. Smith offers straightforward, compassionate care in English and Spanish and works with international clients as well. Her approach is warm and interactive.
She listens first and lets people guide what they need most.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and skills people can use between meetings. She aims to help people regain a sense of balance and purpose in daily life. Dr.
Smith draws on a mix of proven methods, including cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. She also uses EMDR for those processing trauma and motivational interviewing when people face addictive or ambivalent behaviors. Her background includes counseling, coaching, and over two decades teaching at college level.
She has worked in hospitals, crisis teams, maternity and NICU settings, trauma-centered agencies, and correctional facilities. That variety shaped a flexible skill set for addressing complex problems in different life stages and environments. People who choose Dr.
Smith can expect respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental tone. She pays attention to each person’s history, relationships, and practical needs to build realistic goals. She welcomes conversations about next steps and whether her style fits the person’s goals.
How Dr. Smith’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what truly matters and commit to small actions that reflect those values. It is useful when anxiety or life changes make choices feel confusing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It often helps with anxiety, sleep, and mood changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) provides a structured way to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge for people who have a clear trauma history.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or blend methods so sessions match the person’s needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging fit shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or times when writing out thoughts is easier. These options make it simpler to schedule around work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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