About Me

You Deserve to Feel Wonderful. I’m Here to Help.

“Sound mental health and loving relationships are the backbone and joy of our lives.”

Background

Sandra B. Stanford, LMHC has a heart for people who find themselves in hard situations. Because of this passion, she earned her Master’s Degree in Psychological Counseling. Her work with clients is collaborative, working alongside the client to help in the healing process. Sandra’s goal is to help clients recognize, define, and achieve growth and healing in their hearts and homes. Sandra is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a powerful psychotherapy approach that has helped an estimated two million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological distress. Sandra has long utilized this modality to help her own clients after witnessing firsthand how impactful this modality was in helping herself in overcoming crippling anxiety that plagued her as a teen and into adulthood.

Sandra is also a teacher at heart. Her gift for educating others motivated her to continue her EMDR training, which led to her becoming an EMDRIA Basic Trainer and Consultant. She is honored to be a CEU provider for EMDRIA as well as a Regional Trainer for the Florida Mental Health Counselor Association (FMHCA). You can view a listing of her next workshops and register for them by visiting the Educational Opportunities tab on this website as well as the Central Florida EMDR Training calendar, the company Sandra founded to provide interactive EMDR training to counseling graduate students, registered interns, and therapists at all stages in their careers.  She also offers EMDR consulting services for therapists.

Approach & Philosophy

Sandra enjoys working with adults with a wide range of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, and grief. While EMDR is the main modality Sandra uses to assist her clients with these behavioral and emotional concerns, Sandra also has extensive training in attachment theory and in somatic healing as well. She enjoys teaching her clients about the Polyvagal Theory, which addresses the nervous system and how to regulate it in a healthy way. Sandra is additionally certified in the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) program.

Sandra is extremely passionate about working with couples at various stages in their relationships, including couples that are dating or engaged and broken from an affair and desire healing. She has attended intensive trainings and received various certifications in this space that have helped her become the much-sought-after couples counselor she is today. As some examples, she is certified in the Prepare & Enrich program and is also trained in Emotional Intimacy, which teaches couples how to connect on a deeper level, addressing areas of communication, conflict resolution, empathy, needs, and forgiveness. Sandra is constantly integrating newly acquired knowledge to be the best possible relationship counselor to her couples clients.

Sandra is an active member of the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association.

Sandra looks forward to meeting you and helping you on your journey.