About Sandra
Sandra "Chalice" Ledet is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping adults navigate relationship strain, trauma, grief, and life changes. She keeps things straightforward and practical so people can talk about what matters. Her approach centers on listening first and then working together to find useful steps forward.
In sessions she creates space for honest talk without judgment. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered methods to focus on each person s own goals and pacing. Sandra offers strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She may introduce techniques from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and coping in high-stress moments.
These tools are adapted to each person nd discussed before use. Many people come to her for help with ADHD concerns alongside depression, anxiety, or life transitions. She also addresses issues such as intimacy, parenting stress, substance concerns, and career challenges.
Sessions aim to be practical and relevant to daily life. Her work is grounded in direct conversation and real-world problem solving. Sandra supports adults who want clearer patterns, better coping skills, and steadier relationships.
She invites people to take the first step and start a conversation about change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships, helping people notice patterns in trust and closeness. In online sessions this can mean talking through relationship history and practicing new ways of relating in everyday life.Client-centered therapy centers the person's goals and pace, with the therapist providing empathy and reflection. Online formats allow that supportive stance to continue, with conversation driving each session and the client setting priorities.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with practical CBT or DBT skills and adjusting the plan over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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