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Sandra Derks, LPC, CSAC (she/her/hers)

Founder and Clinical Director

Sandy seeks to provide positive and sustained change for clients. She utilizes trauma informed approaches with a variety of issues and/or concerns impacting individual effectiveness. Through these strategies, she assists individuals and families to recover from: trauma associated with addictions and eating disorders, abuse associated with growing up LGBTQIA+, impact of growing up in an abusive or emotionally unavailable family environment. She also assists clients in reprocessing single incident PTSD, and grief/loss. In addition, she assists individuals to more effectively manage attention deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder.  Sandy works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

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She uses treatment models to best meet the needs of specific clients including: 

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

  • Psychodynamic Treatment

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Dialectical-Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • 12-Step Integration with Addiction Treatment

  • Experiential Therapy (e.g., therapeutic activities, art, music)

Sandy also facilitates EMDR trainings and offers EMDR consultation groups for licensed therapists pursuing EMDR certification. 

  • Academic Stress

  • Anger Management

  • Anxiety 

  • ADHD

  • Bipolar and Related Disorders

  • Caregiving Stressors

  • Depression

  • Disordered Eating

  • Dissociative Disorders

  • Divorce

  • Domestic Abuse

  • Eating Disorders (Diagnosed) 

  • Family Conflict

  • Foster Care/Adoption

  • Gambling

  • Gender Dysphoria

  • Grief

  • Health Concerns

  • Inequity and Discrimination

  • LGBTQIA+

  • Life Transitions

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

  • Paraphilic Disorders

  • Perfectionism

  • Performance Anxiety 

  • Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum, Infertility 

  • Racial Identity

  • Relationship Concerns

  • Self-Harm

  • Sexual Concerns

  • Sexual Identity Development

  • Sleep-Wake Disorders

  • Sports Performance 

  • Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

  • Transgender

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Women's Issues

  • Work Stress

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