About Sandra
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience. She uses straightforward, compassionate methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and ADHD. Sandra aims to build practical plans you can use day to day and offers steady support as you try new ways of coping.
She focuses on helping people name problems and test small changes. Sessions emphasize clear skills and honest conversation. Sandra often blends cognitive behavioral work with acceptance strategies to reduce worry and increase focus.
Background and approach
Sandra also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others. That can help with issues like low self-esteem, grief, communication problems, and compassion fatigue. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different responses.
Her style is warm and direct. She helps set realistic goals, practices tools in session, and checks what is or isn’t working. For people coping with life changes, career pressure, sleep problems, anger, or chronic illness, she balances practical technique with emotional attention.
Sessions are offered from New Mexico and conducted in English. Sandra provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their day. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist’s availability.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-based action. It supports work on anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching simple mindfulness and commitment exercises. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, mood, and managing ADHD-related routines and organization.Finding the right fit is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try approaches that feel useful. This collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time depending on what helps the most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for skills practice and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief coaching, check-ins, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy steady around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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