Sandra McQuinn

Sandra McQuinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. Her path to counseling began in education and animal work, starting as a horse trainer and later teaching in special education and English. Those early roles informed a belief that people author their own stories, and that perspective shapes her client-centered approach to therapy.

Her clinical work spans school counseling, prison and rehab settings, suboxone clinic therapy, crisis support, workforce counseling, and services for homeless veterans and families involved with foster care. Sandra has offered equine-assisted psychotherapy and values therapeutic connections that include the human-animal bond. Areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, career concerns, and coping with life changes, with additional attention to attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, addiction, and family dynamics.

Sandra integrates multiple methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and client-centered practices to tailor treatment. She notes that she is not taking any new clients at this time. Outside of work she is a wife to a Coast Guard veteran and a pet owner to a rescued dachshund named Nathan.