About Sandra
Dr. Sandra Smith is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings practical calm to difficult moments.
Her approach is warm and interactive, and she encourages people to guide the work toward their goals. With 24 years of experience Dr. Smith has worked in many settings.
That includes hospitals, crisis teams, maternity and NICU units, and correctional facilities where she served as a primary clinician.
Background and approach
She has also taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels and led work on relationship enrichment early in her career. She uses a broad view when supporting someone. Sessions consider personal history, relationships, work, physical health, and spiritual or social factors that affect wellbeing.
This helps identify small changes that can make daily life easier and relationships clearer. Practical tools and steady listening are both part of her style. Dr.
Smith uses several clinical approaches, such as acceptance and commitment work, mindfulness, cognitive strategies, and client-centered care. She also draws on eye movement techniques for trauma-related problems when appropriate. The goal is to match methods to what each person needs and prefers.
People can expect direct, respectful conversation and help setting realistic next steps. Dr. Smith values compassion over judgment and works to create a space where people can talk through hard things and build on strengths.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing and growth
Dr. Smith uses methods that help people notice what matters and make practical changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take steps that match those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and finding purpose in daily choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and replacing them with clearer, more helpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and respect, giving people space to lead the conversation while the therapist offers reflection and support.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Dr. Smith will discuss options and adapt methods based on each person’s goals, preferences, and progress. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or supplemental contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, different time zones, and varied daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish