About Sandra
Sandra Grace Martinez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or low self-esteem. Sandra also supports those facing trauma, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar mood issues.
Her approach begins with listening. Sandra creates straightforward sessions where people can talk about what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and work to each person’s needs instead of using one set plan for everyone. In therapy she uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to manage strong emotions and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship and connection issues, while Jungian perspectives can help people understand deeper personal themes.
Sandra has supported people through parenting stress, caregiver strain, eating and sleeping concerns, chronic illness, and career or life transitions. She also addresses issues tied to abandonment, codependency, and control or commitment struggles. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish for those who prefer either language.
Her style is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on clear steps you can try between meetings. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a session, and Sandra will work with you to set goals and next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps when connection, trust, or closeness are causing pain or repeating patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and improve daily routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with intense moods and relationship conflict.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process. Sandra will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration helps shape sessions and homework so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits your day, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief updates or between-session support. These formats make it easier to keep a steady rhythm of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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