About Sandra
Sandra Biddy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has practiced for 30 years in Alabama. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family tensions. Sandra emphasizes practical steps and uses straightforward conversation to help people move forward.
She believes each person knows their own story best and brings out strengths clients already have. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the person needs.
Background and approach
Sandra frames challenges as problems to work on together, not labels to carry. Her experience includes grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, intimacy and parenting concerns, anger and self-esteem issues, and support around career changes and ADHD. She also addresses LGBT concerns and bipolar mood management as part of long-term coping work.
In session Sandra listens first, then helps set small goals that feel achievable. She offers tools for managing strong feelings and for repairing communication in close relationships. Homework is concrete and practical when it’s useful.
People who prefer clear guidance and a respectful, steady presence tend to find her approach useful. Sandra aims to empower clients so they leave each week with something they can try between sessions. Her work is direct, calm, and focused on daily life improvements.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Sandra draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning; these tools help with day-to-day coping and mood regulation. Another approach emphasizes grief and end-of-life counseling, offering space to process loss and practical guidance for navigating difficult decisions and emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and needs. That collaborative process includes checking what helps, dropping what doesn’t, and adjusting tools over time so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets people see facial cues and use visual tools, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English