Sandi Hines
Practical, person-centered support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sandi
Sandi Hines is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of practice in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, anger, trauma, parenting matters, and related life challenges. Sandi presents herself as warm and straightforward and aims to make the first steps toward change less overwhelming for someone seeking help.
Her approach is person-centered and practical. She listens to each person’s story and treats them as a distinct individual.
Background and approach
In sessions she pays attention to thoughts and feelings while also looking for strengths that can be used to cope better day to day. Sandi uses therapy methods that include acceptance and commitment work, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
She blends these tools to teach coping strategies, build resilience, and support healthier patterns of thinking and relating. The goal is to increase confidence and ease in handling life’s ups and downs. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can be honest and try new ways of responding to difficulties.
Sandi emphasizes collaboration and focuses on what matters most to the client. Her work is directed toward practical change that fits each person’s life. People who want straightforward, empathetic guidance around family and parenting concerns may find her style accessible.
She offers support for both immediate problems and longer term growth, and stays focused on steps clients can try between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-based action so someone can move toward the life they want despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life, then practicing different behaviors to change mood and functioning. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your situation, discuss options, and together decide which methods match your goals and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to try practical skills and adjust as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins or practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on skills from home or other comfortable settings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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
Next step
Talk to Sandi
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point