About Hope
Hope Spencer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses approachable, down-to-earth care to help people manage stress and anxiety. She begins by building a solid working relationship so clients feel heard and understood before moving into techniques that can make life easier. She draws on 22 years of professional experience alongside many life experiences.
That mix guides how she chooses methods for each person. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear conversations rather than jargon or long lectures.
Background and approach
Hope often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also works in a client-centered way, following each person's pace and priorities, and may bring in solution-focused and mindfulness tools to find small, useful changes.
Her practice supports people facing depression, anger, relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and self-esteem struggles, career stress, and major life changes. She also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver stress, attachment and family of origin concerns, and blended family and divorce matters.
Hope keeps sessions straightforward and often uses hands-on strategies people can try between meetings. She aims to help clients build coping skills, reduce overwhelm, and find clearer ways forward in daily life.
Integrating approaches online for practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities so goals come from the client. This approach helps when someone needs a calm, steady space to sort feelings and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It works well for stress, anxiety, depression, and many daily challenges because it emphasizes clear skills to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Hope collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in to make sure the plan feels useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives and different comfort levels. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone can be easier with limited bandwidth, live chat or text can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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