About Sandra
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She works with individuals facing relationship strain, grief, sleeping problems, anger, career challenges, and life transitions. Sandra practices in New Mexico and offers sessions in English.
Her style is grounded and straightforward. She treats clients as the experts in their lives and aims to walk alongside them. Sandra draws on practical tools so people can make small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sandra uses somatic work alongside talk-based approaches to help people notice how their body and emotions connect. She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to address patterns that keep someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioral techniques and client-centered listening are woven into sessions as needed.
Over her career she has supported people through addictions, bipolar disorder, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and codependency. She also helps with body image, commitment and communication problems, and coping with natural or human-caused disasters. Her background includes working with complex life stressors and long-term patterns.
Sandra emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients set clear goals and chooses strategies that fit each person’s pace and preferences. Starting therapy is framed as a practical step toward clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better day-to-day coping.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic work helps people notice physical reactions in the body and learn simple ways to ease tension or overwhelm. In online sessions that might mean guided attention to breathing, movement, or posture alongside verbal reflection to link sensations with feelings and memories.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter. It uses practical exercises to reduce avoidance and build a life that feels meaningful, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and expectations. It helps people recognize repeating patterns and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. This is a shared process that can change over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy schedules, continue care from different locations within the same state, and pick the format that feels most comfortable for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English