About Sandra
Sandra Grace Martinez is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where clients can speak honestly about hard topics. Sandra uses straightforward, adaptable care.
She listens first and then shapes conversations and goals to match each person’s needs. Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several approaches including attachment-focused ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. That mix lets her balance practical tools with attention to relationships and personal meaning. She also integrates strategies from dialectical behavior work and Jungian perspectives when helpful.
With 14 years of experience as an LPC, Sandra has supported people dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career stress. She also addresses caregiver strain, chronic illness, body image, and codependency patterns. Sessions are offered in multiple formats to fit different needs.
Sandra aims to help clients build clearer boundaries, manage strong emotions, and make steady choices during life transitions. The emphasis is on usable steps and steady progress.
How these approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online work can help people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating during sessions.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy. The therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them find their own solutions, which fits well with video or text formats where a person can reflect at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT techniques are easy to teach over video, phone, or messaging and can include homework between sessions to track progress.
Sandra views choosing an approach as a team effort. She will discuss goals and try methods that match each person’s needs and preferences. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online formats provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be useful when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style feedback, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of working.
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What this counselor 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