About Sandra
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. She works with adults facing relationship problems, grief, sleeping trouble, anger, career shifts, and challenges like ADHD or compassion fatigue. Sandra writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Her style blends practical skills and relational care. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and client-centered methods to tailor sessions to a person's situation.
How Sandra works
That mix lets her focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, building coping skills, and strengthening emotional connection with oneself and others. Sandra pays attention to patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages. She offers tools for coping with big life changes, chronic health concerns, caregiving stress, and boundary problems.
She also supports people dealing with identity and body-image worries, commitment or control issues, and the fallout from trauma or loss. Practical concerns are addressed alongside emotional healing. Sessions can include skill practice, reflective conversation, and action steps for daily life.
Sandra aims to make therapy useful and understandable so people can try techniques between meetings. She practices in New Mexico and conducts sessions in English. People who are interested begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
Sandra 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
How Sandra's approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice hard thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It teaches practical exercises for staying present and committing to small steps that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer emotional responses and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra will review needs, goals, and preferences together and adapt methods as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps pick techniques that fit someone's life and learning style.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule or when travel is difficult.
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