About Sandra
Sandra Grace Martinez is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 14 years of clinical experience to her work. She aims to create straightforward, respectful conversations so clients can feel heard and understood.
Sandra uses an individualized approach to care. She adapts sessions to the person's goals and life situation rather than following a fixed script.
How Sandra works
Her areas of focus include addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep and eating issues, and support for those coping with major life changes. She draws on several therapeutic methods to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current responses and close bonds. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sandra also addresses specialized concerns such as ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and codependency.
She works with mood-related challenges including bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation concerns, and she supports people facing burnout and compassion fatigue. Sessions are held in English and Spanish and can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sandra tailors the way she works to each person and helps them build tools for day-to-day life.
If someone wants a collaborative, respectful therapist who adapts to real-world needs, Sandra aims to be that partner.
Sandra lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sandra works with
The areas below are the ones Sandra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice attachment styles and work toward more supported ways of relating to others and to themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and changing behaviors that get in the way of daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and circumstances. She may combine methods and adjust the plan as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a quick check-in, live chat works for brief exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide flexibility for different schedules, comfort levels, and daily routines while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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