About Sandra
Sandra Vaughn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and supports those facing depression, grief, addiction, and other life challenges. Sandra works in Georgia and conducts sessions in English.
Sandra favors a practical, person-centered way of working. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit each person's life.
Background and approach
She mixes conversation with hands-on strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift stressful thought patterns. She also uses client-centered principles to keep the client's priorities central.
For people who struggle with intense emotions or relationship patterns, elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally focused methods may be included. Sandra has helped people cope with addiction, sleep problems, anger, career strain, and parenting stress. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, attachment concerns, and identity issues such as LGBT-related stress.
Her work often combines short-term problem solving with deeper exploration when needed. Sessions can address practical life changes like divorce, caregiving strain, or job transitions. Sandra emphasizes respect and compassion in every conversation.
She guides clients toward clearer choices and steadier day-to-day coping.
How Sandra’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates space to hear what matters most and helps clients choose their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping under stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sandra will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made so the client stays involved in decisions about treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a written record helps recall steps. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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