About Ishanie
Ishanie Sanchez is a licensed counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She practices in New Jersey and speaks English and Spanish. Ishanie draws on a blend of practical methods to help people face everyday challenges and big life changes.
She focuses on trauma and abuse recovery, mood disorders, and support for LGBT clients. She also helps with career concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and the effects of compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Additional areas include attachment wounds, commitment and communication problems, and immigration-related stress. Ishanie uses concrete tools in sessions so people can apply them between meetings. She works collaboratively, listening first and then offering strategies from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Sessions often include skill-building for emotion regulation and communication practice. Her background includes clinical work across community settings over many years, with experience addressing cultural and identity factors that shape how problems show up. Ishanie explains options clearly and checks in about what is and isn't working as therapy progresses.
People who meet with her typically work on clearer boundaries, improved coping skills, and better ways to manage mood and relationship patterns. She supports Spanish-speaking clients as well as English speakers and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions aligned with those values. It supports people struggling with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching techniques to notice thoughts and move toward meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, mood symptoms, and improving problem-solving in daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It can help with impulsivity, emotional overwhelm, and improving communication patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face from different places. Phone sessions are a low-bandwidth option for check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief coaching, skill reminders, or when a written check-in fits a schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish