About Sandy
Sandy Burton is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of experience based in Texas. She brings an easygoing, warm style to sessions and believes in meeting people where they are. Sandy balances lightness with depth, so conversations can be honest and direct when it matters.
Before counseling, she worked in retail and understands the strain of living paycheck to paycheck. That background shaped her interest in practical help for everyday stress and life transitions.
How Sandy works
She uses that perspective to keep goals realistic and rooted in daily life. Sandy works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, and addictive behaviors. She also helps people facing relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, and career worries.
Additional focuses include body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, ADHD, and communication problems. Her approach blends client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with time for understanding feelings and building concrete skills.
Sandy encourages practical steps between sessions and checks in on progress. People who want a down-to-earth counselor who listens, offers structure, and keeps therapy grounded in real life may find her helpful. She conducts sessions in English and works with clients throughout Texas.
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What Sandy works with
The areas below are the ones Sandy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Client-centered therapy puts the person at the center of the conversation. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client's lead to build understanding and trust. This approach can help with self-esteem, grief, and life changes where being heard matters.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Sessions teach practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is collaborative and respects a person’s readiness and goals, useful for addictions, ambivalence, and making difficult life shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try strategies that fit their needs. Together they adjust the plan as progress and challenges appear, staying focused on what is useful in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for seeing nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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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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