About Sandi
Sandi Hines is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Tennessee with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, anger, relationship concerns, and parenting struggles. Sandi emphasizes a warm, person-centered approach that treats each client as an individual.
She listens carefully to each person's story and responds without judgment. Sessions are aimed at identifying strengths and building practical coping strategies. Sandi helps people increase resilience, self-esteem, and confidence so they can manage life changes more effectively.
Background and approach
Her work often blends practical skills with attention to attachment and emotions. She draws on methods that help clients notice thoughts, accept difficult feelings, and commit to values-based actions. This mix supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and career or caregiving stresses.
Sandi also addresses more specific concerns like abandonment, blended family issues, communication problems, codependency, and fatherhood issues. She offers guidance around major life transitions and the challenges that follow disasters or loss. The focus is on steady progress and usable tools rather than quick fixes.
People who connect well with Sandi usually want a genuine, down-to-earth therapist who listens and helps set achievable goals. She aims to walk alongside clients as they make meaningful changes and build a life that feels more satisfying.
How online methods and approaches come together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavioral changes to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating crisis moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have conversational sessions with visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins or when typing feels easier, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English