About Sandra
Sandra Sunter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 37 years of experience. She emphasizes a warm, client-centered approach that helps people talk through grief, depression, anxiety, and big life changes. Sandra aims to create a calm space where feelings can be named and understood.
She uses practical methods to address stress, low self-esteem, caregiver strain, and challenges tied to serious illness or aging. Sessions focus on manageable steps people can take between meetings to feel steadier and more in control.
Background and approach
Sandra also supports people dealing with addiction, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family-of-origin issues. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult thoughts while moving toward their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is applied to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors.
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are woven in to build skills for day-to-day coping. Sandra is comfortable addressing concerns such as compassion fatigue, chronic pain, cancer-related stress, divorce, and eating or food-related issues. She helps people sort through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and feelings of emptiness that can follow loss or major transitions.
Conversations are paced to each person's needs, with attention to practical tools and clear goals. Sandra encourages small experiments and steady progress rather than quick fixes, supporting people as they work toward a more balanced life.
Practical approaches for online sessions
Sandra commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and help choose or combine methods that feel like a good fit. This collaborative planning lets sessions adapt as needs change over time.
Online therapy with Sandra includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while using the approaches most helpful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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