About Sandi
Sandi Hines is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience based in Tennessee. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship strain, grief, anger, and family concerns. Sandi aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
Sandi uses a friendly, person-centered approach in sessions. She treats each person as an individual and listens to life stories, thoughts, and feelings without judgment. Her manner is open and genuine, creating space for honest conversation.
Background and approach
She combines practical coping skills with attention to strengths. Together with clients she works on building resilience, improving self-esteem, and developing routines that reduce overwhelm. Sessions often include concrete strategies for managing emotions and improving communication.
Attachment-based ideas inform her view of relationships and intimacy. Cognitive and behavioral tools are used to address unhelpful thinking and patterns. Elements of acceptance-based and dialectical approaches are added when helpful to manage strong emotions and commit to values-based change.
Sandi also supports people dealing with parenting concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She pays attention to issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, codependency, and aging-related concerns. The focus is practical help so people can make decisions that fit their goals.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Sandi often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape how people connect and react to closeness. That perspective helps when addressing intimacy issues, communication problems, and healing from relationship wounds.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandi will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people see and hear each other for more conversational work. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing contact between sessions and can support day-to-day coping and coaching around specific moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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