Ishanie Sanchez, LPC, LMHC

Ishanie Sanchez is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in New Jersey. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core approach and blends other methods to address practical concerns. Her goal is to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes find clearer ways forward.

Ishanie frames sessions around the person in front of her. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients test small changes that can make daily life easier. Conversations focus on skills people can try between sessions and on building more reliable emotional coping.

Her work also addresses relationship struggles, intimacy questions, grief, career concerns, and identity issues including LGBT matters. She pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect how people relate to others. Practical goals and clearer communication are common aims in her sessions.

Ishanie draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients name values and take purposeful action. She uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills when needed. Client-Centered and Attachment-Based ideas guide how she holds the therapeutic relationship.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. People can expect a straightforward, down-to-earth approach that focuses on real-world changes. She works with issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue, mood disorders, and immigration-related stress with attention to context and lived experience.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new, more useful thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood-related issues.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult emotions are present. It can be useful for life transitions, avoidance patterns, and chronic worry.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. It can help people understand repeated relational patterns like fear of abandonment, control issues, or problems with intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and needs. Together they will set practical steps and adjust strategies as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for session structure and face-to-face interaction. Phone calls can be easier on low bandwidth days or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get brief support without scheduling a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches like CBT and ACT effectively.