Sandy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Her academic training includes a Master's degree
in Counseling from Sam Houston State University in 1980 and 30 hours
in Doctoral program in
Counseling Psychology at the University of Houston. In June of 1992
she received a certification of
completion in a post graduate program in Marital and Family Therapy
from the Montlake Institute.
To supplement this background, she has pursued training in other therapeutic
modalities which
include EMDR (post level 2), specialty training in the use of EMDR with
children, and in the Hellinger
family constellation method. She has studied with various teachers from
Germany in this new method
beginning in January,1998. The Enneagram personality paradigm is another
key interest where Sandy
has pursued extensive training, She used the Enneagram as a tool in
both counseling sessions as well
as in small group work.