About Sandra
Sandra "Chalice" Ledet brings Attachment-Based and client-centered approaches to her therapy practice. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Oregon with 30 years of experience. She helps adults talk through relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and big life changes in a calm, straightforward way.
She creates a space where people can say what they are feeling without judgement. Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation.
Background and approach
The aim is to make difficult topics clearer and more manageable over time. Ledet draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on attachment ideas to look at how past relationships shape current ones. She may use skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help with overwhelming emotions and with building steadier coping skills.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including compassion fatigue, addictions, intimacy challenges, sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, and self-esteem. She also addresses issues like chronic illness, codependency, blended family tensions, and the effects of domestic violence and separation. People who choose to work with her can expect direct conversations about goals and small, practical steps between sessions.
She encourages a collaborative pace so each person can move forward in ways that feel doable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns and build safer ways of relating to others. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace. In remote sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead and focuses on listening, reflection, and helping the person name what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try different ways of working based on the person's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process and changes can be made as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, between-session coaching, or flexible communication when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English