About Sandra
Sandra DeCarolis is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Colorado with ten years of clinical experience. She welcomes people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, mood concerns, or difficult life changes. Sandra uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to help people feel more steady and in control.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She focuses on building trust first and then works from the client’s strengths. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, so people leave with clear steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sandra blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered work to make space for a person’s perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear when they fit the goal at hand.
She has supported people facing trauma, substance concerns, depression, bipolar mood challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic health problems, and career pressures. Sandra also addresses body image, abandonment worries, and communication or control issues that come up in daily life.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which lets people choose what works best for them. Sandra helps clients set realistic goals and learn skills they can use right away. If someone wants a calm, practical approach that focuses on steady progress, she aims to provide that.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work means the conversation starts with the person’s experience and values. The therapist listens closely and helps people clarify what matters most to them and what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and actions affect mood. It uses simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas teach practical skills for managing strong emotions and handling stressful moments without escalating. These skills are often useful for impulse control, anger, and intense mood swings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process that centers the client’s needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone needs support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English