Sandra West, LPC
Practical support for stress, trauma, and relationships
About Sandra
Sandra West is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas. She works with people who are facing relationship problems, trauma, stress, anxiety, grief, addictions, and changes in life. Sandra focuses on helping clients build self-esteem and confidence so they can move forward.
Sandra treats each person as an individual and meets them where they are. She encourages clients to name the parts of life that feel stuck and then to try small, realistic steps to change them.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and grounded in day-to-day life rather than abstract theory. Her work draws on body-focused somatic methods alongside approaches that target thoughts, emotions, and attachment patterns. That combination is used to help people get out of overwhelm and feel more steady in their bodies and relationships.
She also uses acceptance-based and client-centered techniques to help people notice what matters most to them. Sandra has eight years of clinical experience and holds the LPC credential. She aims to make therapy collaborative - clients set goals and choose the pace.
Conversations can include skills practice, gentle body-awareness work, and problem-solving for real situations. People seeking help for parenting strain, career crossroads, complicated grief, or coping after loss often find concrete tools here. Sandra emphasizes small changes that fit into daily life and builds on each person's strengths to support lasting shifts.
How Sandra's approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing bodily sensations and simple movement or breath practices to help people feel more grounded. This approach can help when anxiety, dissociation, or strong emotions make it hard to think clearly, by bringing attention back to the body in manageable steps.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports noticing hard thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, while clarifying personal values and small actions that match those values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections shape current expectations and reactions, helping people change repeating patterns in their relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and needs, adjusting over time as progress is made and new issues come up.
Online sessions offer flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to match practical needs. Video lets people work face-to-face and try somatic exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good check-in. Live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that best help each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English