About Sandra
Sandra Sunter uses a person-centered approach to help people cope with major life changes and persistent emotional struggles. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 37 years of professional experience. Sandra aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear.
She focuses on grief and loss, caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, and serious illness. She also works with depression, low self-esteem, motivation problems, anxiety, addiction, and trauma.
Background and approach
Her practice includes support for relationship and family issues, eating concerns, anger, bipolar-related challenges, and LGBT matters. Sandra creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings and thoughts. Sessions center on understanding what matters to the person and finding practical ways to move forward.
She blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to match what each person needs. In practical terms, work may include learning small daily skills, noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, and choosing actions that reflect personal values. Sandra also helps caregivers manage burnout and supports people facing chronic illness or cancer-related stress.
She offers concrete steps and short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration when that feels right. People who are looking for steady guidance through loss, relationship tension, mood struggles, or life transitions can expect a supportive, collaborative approach. Sandra encourages honest conversation and helps people set realistic goals they can build on over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that fit their values. It is useful for grief, anxiety, low motivation, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. It often uses practical exercises and short homework tasks. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, offering a listening space where the therapist reflects and supports self-understanding and growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sandra will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of methods fits best based on goals, needs, and personal preference. Together they can try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions are useful when video is not possible, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days, manage sessions during caregiving duties, or connect when travel is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English