Ondria Spivey, LPC-MHSP

Ondria Spivey, LPC-MHSP, helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She also supports individuals dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship and family problems, compassion fatigue, career concerns, and issues related to adoption and foster care. Her style blends practical strategies with attention to personal values and faith when clients want that included.

With 24 years of experience in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings, she brings a broad clinical background to independent practice in Tennessee. She has served as Clinical Director for both a residential treatment center for children and youth and for an outpatient counseling center, and now focuses on one-to-one work in her practice.

Ondria uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She explains ideas simply and helps people try small, manageable changes that can make daily life easier. When faith matters to a client, scripture and prayer can be part of sessions, and otherwise treatment emphasizes practical psychological tools.

Sessions emphasize clear goals, simple skills to reduce stress, and ways to improve relationships and self-worth. She pays attention to how family of origin and fertility or adoption histories shape current patterns. The aim is to find what works for each person and to apply it in everyday life.

Ondria invites clients to explore healing at a pace that fits them. She focuses on helping people move toward more peaceful, meaning-filled living using approaches that match their needs and values.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings appear. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by teaching practical ways to stay present and act on chosen goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with daily stress.

Many clients also benefit from Trauma-Focused Therapy, which attends to memories and reactions tied to traumatic events and offers tools to reduce their hold on daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try a direction and adjust as needed based on what feels useful and realistic.

Confirm current session options before booking since the biography does not list formats. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins, reduce travel time, and let people attend from quieter surroundings when that helps. Licensed professionals can use the same therapeutic tools online as in-person, and this therapist will help adapt methods so they work in the client’s everyday life.