Welcome!
Hi, I’m Sandi and I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#112620), supervised and employed by Chris Tickner, LMFT (#42576), who sees adults, adolescents/tweens, and couples/families. Within my therapeutic practice I believe that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to psychotherapy. I work psychodynamically and integrate other modalities when appropriate which can include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and somatic based approaches. My specialties include Complex Trauma/PTSD,
Childhood Trauma, Addiction, Depression, Anxiety, Mood/Personality Disorders, and Suicidal Ideation/Self Harm. As your therapist, I will collaborate with you at your own pace. Together we will discover the thoughts and emotions driving you and learn new ways of coping. We will explore what is underneath the unwanted thoughts, feelings, and behavior and begin the healing process.
Like many of my clients, I’ve had a long and winding journey full of ups and downs to arrive at today, to this moment. After a number of life transitions, and a thirty year career in the entertainment business, I made the decision to follow my passion of helping people, a passion that I’ve had since I was a teenager, and return to school to become a therapist. I feel that my skills and life experience help me meet my clients wherever they are and enable me to hold whatever comes up in our sessions together. I’m deeply attuned, highly empathetic, playful & funny, compassionate, irreverent, deeply thoughtful, insightful, non-judgmental, and humble.
Are you finding yourself unsure of where to turn in life? That coping mechanisms which once worked for you no longer are? Do you struggle to find a connection to yourself or others? Do you find yourself still struggling with things that happened long ago and you don't understand why? Having the courage to work on one’s relationship to self and others can be powerful, deeply healing and perhaps one of the most loving actions one can do. Let me join with you on your journey.