About Edna
Edna Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She practices in Indiana and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at clear steps rather than jargon.
Edna helps clients facing life changes, grief, relationship strain, and issues around intimacy and sleeping. She also addresses addiction concerns, parenting stress, career pressure, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
People looking to talk through self-esteem or anger often find her approach straightforward and goal-focused. Her work draws on client-centered methods that honor each person’s story. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot patterns and change unhelpful thinking.
Dialectical strategies and mindfulness skills are offered when emotions feel overwhelming. Edna pays attention to cultural background, attachment history, and caregiving burdens. She brings this perspective into conversations about abandonment, aging, veteran-related concerns, and multicultural stressors.
The focus is on concrete strategies that fit daily life. Sessions are oriented toward building coping skills and clearer communication. Clients leave with steps they can try between meetings.
People who want calm, direct guidance and down-to-earth tools tend to do well in her sessions.
How Edna’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s priorities and values. The therapist follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and helps set goals that matter to the individual. This approach is useful for people who need a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, with practical exercises for distress and emotional regulation.
Finding the right method is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will review goals, try different techniques, and adjust strategies based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to fit interventions to each person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video calls let people have a full conversation, phone sessions can fit into a work break or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, New Jersey, Virginia, Mississippi
- Languages
- English