About Sandra
Sandra Rico is a licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of clinical experience in Florida. She offers a calm, respectful presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other life changes. Sandra speaks English and Spanish and provides care that fits each person's background and concerns.
She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. That includes building better communication, managing strong emotions, and creating routines for sleep and eating.
How Sandra works
Sandra blends approaches so sessions feel useful and grounded in everyday life. Her background covers trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and disorders that affect mood and behavior. She also works with concerns about intimacy, relationships, parenting challenges, and identity.
This range gives her experience with both immediate crises and longer-term recovery work. Sandra uses client-centered methods that keep a person's goals at the center of each session. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking, and narrative techniques to reframe difficult personal stories.
These tools are applied in a straightforward, conversational way. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People can connect in whatever format fits their schedule and needs.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Sandra lists 9 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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals and perspective first, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach is useful for people who need a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide on next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. It teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, mood shifts, and stress so people can notice patterns and change small behaviors that make a big difference.
Mindfulness therapy offers simple techniques to increase awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations, which can reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotion regulation. These exercises are short and easy to practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sandra will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then adapt methods over time. She checks in regularly to see what is working and shifts focus when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth when that matters, live chat can be a shorter check-in during a break, and text messaging supports ongoing, flexible connection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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