About Sandra
Sandra West is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people facing anxiety and life transitions. She speaks plainly and works to make creating change feel manageable. Many clients come for help with stress, self-esteem, grief, or relationship concerns.
Sandra frames therapy as a collaborative process and meets people where they are. With eight years of experience in Texas, Sandra draws on practical methods to address common problems like depression, panic, sleep disruption, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
She helps people name what’s getting in the way, practice small behavior changes, and build steadier routines. Sessions aim to be direct and usable so progress can be felt between meetings. Sandra uses approaches that encourage acceptance of difficult feelings while also supporting clear action toward meaningful goals.
She pays close attention to attachment and relationship patterns that often shape how people cope. Conversation is centered on each person’s values and what matters most to them. In her work she addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting stress, career strain, body image, and caregiving burdens.
She also supports people dealing with grief, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and intimacy-related worries. Her focus includes both practical skills and awareness of deeper emotional patterns. Therapy is offered in several online formats to fit different needs.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability. Sandra aims to help people take concrete next steps toward a more manageable life.
How these approaches fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems in place and teaches practical skills to change them. Both approaches work well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns that shape how people relate to others and themselves. It can be helpful for intimacy-related worries, communication problems, and issues rooted in early connections. Choosing which approach to use is a shared decision. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then tailor methods to each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t practical, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, manage shorter symptom check-ins, or practice skills between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and skill work to each format so therapy remains focused and useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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