About Sandra
Sandra Romero is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who offers a warm, collaborative approach to therapy. She aims to create a space where people feel heard and supported while they work on healing and personal growth. Sandra speaks English and Spanish and often connects with clients who bring cultural or bicultural concerns to therapy.
She focuses on trauma recovery and building emotional resilience. Much of her work has supported adults recovering from domestic violence and other forms of trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and major life transitions. Sandra blends practical strategies with education about how stress and trauma affect the brain and body. She uses techniques from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive processing methods, interpersonal work, mindfulness, somatic practices, and DBT skills.
These tools aim to reduce symptoms and create healthier patterns over time. For people wanting faith included in sessions, she offers faith-sensitive counseling that integrates biblical perspectives alongside other therapeutic methods. Sandra emphasizes setting clear, achievable goals and building skills that fit each person’s life and values.
Her style is compassionate and direct. Sessions typically focus on small, concrete steps that lead to improved coping, stronger relationships, and greater self-understanding. Sandra works at a pace chosen with the client so change feels manageable.
Approaches that guide online healing and trauma work
Acceptance and commitment approaches focus on helping people live in line with their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. This method supports coping with anxiety, life changes, and stress by building committed action steps. Cognitive processing methods help people name and reframe thoughts that keep trauma and painful beliefs active, which can reduce the hold of traumatic memories and improve day-to-day functioning.Sandra also uses interpersonal techniques and mindfulness practices to strengthen relationships and teach grounding skills for stress and trauma. These approaches often pair well with simple body-based practices that help the nervous system settle after upsetting events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying methods, adjusting as needed, and building a plan together rather than following a fixed protocol.
Confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing more flexible scheduling. It can also make shorter check-ins or phone-based conversations simpler to arrange, and it helps people continue care through major life transitions without needing to visit an office.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish