Sandra Adams
Experienced counsellor for relationships and addictions
About Sandra
Sandra Adams is a counsellor with 26 years of experience helping people through difficult life moments. She works directly with individuals on issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy problems, addiction, grief and stress. Sandra uses a warm, respectful approach and adapts to each person's needs.
She draws on client-centred methods that focus on the person's priorities and values. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out practical changes.
Background and approach
Solution-focused work helps people identify small, achievable steps and build momentum. Sandra has worked across domestic abuse, psycho-sexual concerns and gambling addiction contexts, and has run support groups for people affected by a loved one's gambling. Her experience includes offering clinical supervision to other practitioners.
She explains things plainly and helps people find realistic next steps. Sessions are conversational and aim to make sense of problems together. Sandra pays attention to attachment, abandonment and communication patterns that affect relationships and intimacy.
She also supports people with body image, shame, codependency and financial worries. People can expect a collaborator who listens, reflects and suggests practical strategies. Sandra helps clients draw on their own strengths while trying different ways to cope and relate.
She welcomes people who want to take gradual steps towards clearer goals.
What Sandra works with
How Sandra works
Listed by Sandra among the ways they work.
Listed by Sandra among the ways they work.
Listed by Sandra among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Client-centred work focuses on what matters to the person and follows their pace. The counsellor listens, reflects and helps clients clarify goals and values so they can decide what to change.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practise different reactions, which can ease anxiety, low mood and stress over time.
Solution-focused therapy concentrates on short-term, practical steps. It asks what a small next improvement would look like and supports clients to build on those changes week by week.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through options and tailor methods to the client's needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way. That means trying approaches, checking what helps and adjusting as you go.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see body language and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or caregiving commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
