About Sandi
Sandi Hines is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee with 18 years of professional experience. She greets people with a warm, person-centered approach and aims to make the first steps toward change less daunting. Sandi focuses on practical work that helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and relationship concerns.
She listens to each person's story and responds without judgment. Sessions center on identifying strengths and building skills people can use between meetings.
How Sandi works
Sandi helps clients develop coping strategies that boost resilience, self-esteem, and confidence. Her approach adapts to the individual. She blends methods that address thoughts, emotions, and patterns in relationships.
This helps when issues include family conflict, intimacy or attachment struggles, parenting challenges, or career-related stress. Sandi has particular experience supporting people through trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, bipolar concerns, and major life changes. She also addresses specific topics such as abandonment, blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, and fatherhood issues.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused. Sandi helps clients set achievable steps and track progress toward clearer, more satisfying daily life. She presents herself as a steady partner in the work of change and growth.
Sandi lists 15 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Sandi works with
The areas below are the ones Sandi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sandi commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that align with personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from close relationships and helps people change how they connect and trust, which can be useful for intimacy, family conflict, and attachment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sandi will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and interactive skill work. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or check in between longer sessions. These options make scheduling simpler and let therapy continue across distance and different routines.
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