About Sandee
Sandee Young is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience. She works with people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Sandee offers practical support and clear guidance in short, direct conversations that focus on what matters most to each person.
She has experience supporting LGBT clients and people coping with trauma, relationship concerns, bipolar mood changes, and sleep or eating problems. Sandee also helps with career questions, life transitions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to aging and caregiver stress, end-of-life and hospice concerns, and issues rooted in family of origin. Sandee takes a respectful, sensitive approach. She works with each person to shape conversations and goals that fit their situation.
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and finding realistic steps forward. Her background includes long-term clinical work in a range of settings over two decades. That experience informs straightforward strategies for everyday problems as well as more complex mood and trauma-related issues.
Sandee aims to empower people to make changes at a pace that suits them. People who choose Sandee can expect a collaborative process. She listens, asks practical questions, and helps create a plan that addresses current struggles and future goals.
Her practice is based in Idaho and she offers help in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Sandee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make concrete changes. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and practical strategies for managing anxiety and depression. These sessions teach steps you can try between meetings to reduce symptoms and improve daily routine.Another helpful approach centers on processing grief, trauma, and relationship stress through guided conversation and problem-solving. This method helps people name what’s happening, practice new ways of communicating, and plan small changes that ease daily strain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve, then recommend techniques to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera helps less. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and people who prefer writing over speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Utah, Nevada
- Languages
- English