Sandy Cooper completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Vanderbilt University in psychology and counseling. After completing an internship at the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt, she continued to work at the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt for three years providing individual, group, and family therapy to adolescents and adults. She left Vanderbilt to become the Clinical Director of Bradford Health Services, working with adolescents with mental health and substance abuse issues. She worked at Bradford for eight years, also serving as the Clinical Director and Administrator, providing therapy and overseeing all clinical programs. In 1996, Sandy entered into private practice in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, primarily specializing in working with adolescents and adults with mental health and substance abuse issues. Sandy recently moved her practice to Hendersonville, TN.