Sandi Hines , LCSW

Sandi Hines, LCSW, brings 18 years of social work experience to her counseling practice in Tennessee. She focuses on anxiety, depression, stress, relationship concerns, grief, anger, and parenting challenges. Sandi offers a warm, person-centered style and aims to help people build confidence and stronger coping skills.

She greets each person as an individual and listens carefully to their story. Sessions emphasize practical tools for handling day-to-day stress and emotion regulation. Sandi helps clients identify strengths and practice skills that reduce overwhelm and increase resilience.

Her approach blends methods that focus on values, behavior, and emotional connection. That means helping people clarify what matters to them, notice unhelpful thinking, and repair attachment ruptures in important relationships. She uses clear, straightforward techniques rather than jargon-heavy explanations.

People come to Sandi for many issues, including family conflict, intimacy-related concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. She also works with trauma and abuse survivors and those facing mood disorders such as bipolar. Her practice includes attention to codependency, commitment and communication issues, and blended family dynamics.

Sandi aims to create a trustworthy, nonjudgmental space where clients can try new ways of coping. She encourages small, steady steps toward goals and works collaboratively on problem solving. Her focus is on helping people make changes that feel meaningful and manageable in everyday life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Sandi commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward what matters. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to behavior that fits long-term goals.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and understanding each person's experience. That approach supports self-directed growth by offering empathy, genuine feedback, and a nonjudgmental stance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and which methods seem most helpful. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively and can adjust strategies as progress is made.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and deeper conversational work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to get frequent, brief support between longer sessions.