About Ishanie
Ishanie Sanchez is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She offers help in both English and Spanish.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the client and identify small, doable steps toward change. Ishanie blends tools that target thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and meaningful values so people can manage day-to-day problems more easily.
How Ishanie works
She often works with issues that come from trauma and abuse, caregiving strain, and the hard shifts life can bring. She also supports those dealing with grief, questions of identity, intimacy-related concerns, and mood disorders including bipolar. Practical topics like money stress, career questions, and feeling stuck are also part of her practice.
Ishanie uses a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to focus on values, and attachment-informed work to improve closeness and communication. Dialectical behavior strategies and client-centered listening help people build emotion skills and feel understood. Clients can expect straightforward feedback, collaborative goal-setting, and concrete skills to practice between sessions.
She notes that therapy is a process and that progress often comes from steady, small changes.
Ishanie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Ishanie works with
The areas below are the ones Ishanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and build small habits that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where someone wants a clearer sense of purpose. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of connection affect current relationships and communication. It helps people who want to improve closeness, manage abandonment or attachment issues, and change repeating relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match goals, preferences, and the issue at hand. That might mean combining ACT ideas with attachment-focused conversations and straightforward CBT skill-building so treatment fits the person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling flexible. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling a busy life.
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