About Rev. Sandra Lydick

Rev. Sandra Lydick, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, has served as an Associate and Senior Pastor in United Methodist churches in the Central Texas Conference. Sandra is endorsed by the United Methodist Endorsing Agency as a pastoral counselor and crime victims chaplain. She is also a Licensed Master Social Worker and served as a social worker and chaplain for Early Childhood Intervention in Arlington.

Currently she is serving as Executive Director and Chaplain for Crime Victims Council, a non-profit agency and outreach ministry of First United Methodist Church, providing services to crime victims of all faiths in Central Texas. Crime Victims Council provides counseling, training, an annual interfaith service of Help, Hope, and Healing, community education, and crime prevention.  The Council engages in raising community consciousness and acts as an advocate for crime victims’ rights.  Rev. Lydick is a member of The Clergy and Police Alliance Program (C.A.P.A.), a coalition of pastors who work in partnership with the police department to serve the citizens of Ft. Worth.  Rev. Lydick also serves on the counseling staff of The Center for Creative Transformation www.centerforcreativetransformation.com, the counseling ministry of First United Methodist Church.

Sandra is an advocate for women and women in leadership; she served as Co-Convener of the Women’s Caucus of the United Methodist Church, and editor of The Yellow Ribbon, national newsletter for the Women’s Caucus. She was a founding member and Co-Convener of The Women’s Leadership Team of the South Central Jurisdiction that supports women and minorities for the episcopacy.

Rev. Lydick studies and practices Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Self-Relations Psychotherapy. She has taught and practiced yoga for over 35 years. Sandra is a published author with a chapter, “Applications of Self Relations in Religious Settings, Healing Communities, and Faith Development,” in Walking in Two Worlds: the Relational Self in Theory, Practice, and Community, Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D. and Dvorah Simon, Ph.D., editors.

She is currently serving as a volunteer Red Cross Disaster Mental Health professional and has served as a volunteer facilitator at The Warm Place for children ages 3 – 5 who are grieving the loss of a parent, sibling, or grandparent.