Sandra Morales, LCSW
Therapist in New Mexico
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience.
- Licensed inNew Mexico
- LicenseC-11713
- NPI 1396145280
- Experience14+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Sandra
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience. She offers a calm, straightforward approach and focuses on listening first. Sandra helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and life transitions.
Her work often centers on attachment-based ideas - how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. She combines that with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match what each person needs. Sandra also draws on client-centered and dialectical behavior therapy approaches. That means she pays attention to what feels important to the person in the room, and teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication.
She aims to help people build more stable ways of coping with anger, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. She has supported clients through trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, career stress, and caregiving strain. Additional focuses include abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness and pain, and rebuilding after disasters.
Sandra helps people work through relationship and family concerns from an individual perspective. Therapy with Sandra is practical and relational. She partners with people to set clear goals, try new strategies between sessions, and track small changes over time.
The process is collaborative and grounded in real-life skills.
Credentials
- LCSW (New Mexico)
- License C-11713 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1396145280 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sandra lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Sandra names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Attachment and skills work through online sessions
Sandra integrates attachment-based therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered listening. Attachment-based therapy looks at how relationships shape feeling and reaction, and it helps people recognize patterns that repeat in current relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action instead of getting stuck on unhelpful thinking. Client-centered work emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the person leads the pace and topics.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sandra will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals and daily life. She checks in about what feels useful and adjusts methods so sessions stay relevant to the individual's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face while staying in their own area, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or times when speaking is difficult. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical schedules and to practice new skills between sessions.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does Sandra address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep issues, anger, career strain, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Sandra blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and skills-based methods like CBT, ACT, and DBT to help people notice patterns and practice new responses.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns and life stages.
Where is she licensed and based?
Sandra is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in New Mexico.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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