Sandra Sunter
Practical, compassionate help for life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sandra
Sandra Sunter uses practical, evidence-informed therapies to help people navigate hard times. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with 37 years of experience and she practices in Florida. Sandra aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and grounded in everyday life.
She focuses on grief and loss, depression, anxiety, stress, and challenges with motivation and self-esteem. Her work also addresses relationship strain, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar concerns, and issues related to identity, including LGBT matters.
Background and approach
Sandra lists a range of related areas she supports such as caregiver stress, chronic illness, cancer, and family problems. Sessions are built around an open, nonjudgmental conversation. Sandra listens first and then offers practical strategies such as mindful awareness, values-based actions, and short-term problem solving.
She encourages clients to name small, achievable steps toward their goals. Sandra emphasizes compassion for difficult emotions and practical coping tools. She helps people sort through grief, make decisions during life changes, and rebuild confidence.
The work often mixes learning new skills with space to process feelings. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. Sandra supports clients in finding what feels useful and sustainable, offering encouragement and clear options rather than one-size-fits-all fixes.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for grief, anxiety, and life changes when someone wants practical ways to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches clear skills for reducing symptoms like depression and anxiety through step-by-step practice. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-based relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports self-directed growth.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative and can shift over time as goals change.
Online formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow regular contact, quick check-ins, and flexibility when travel or health issues make in-person visits hard. For people juggling caregiving, work, or medical appointments, online sessions can keep momentum and make consistent support more accessible.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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