About Kendra
Kendra Spiva is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, grief, and navigating major life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with an eye toward practical steps people can use right away.
She uses conversations tailored to each person's situation rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions often include exploring what’s most important to the client, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, and trying small behavioral changes to see what helps.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are sometimes added to teach simple ways to calm the body and mind. With six years of experience, Kendra draws on a mix of approaches to match a client’s needs. She combines cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-based work to reduce struggle and build meaningful daily routines.
Attachment-focused perspectives guide discussions about relationship patterns and intimacy concerns. Kendra aims to make the process collaborative. She listens for each person’s strengths and goals, and she adjusts conversations and exercises as progress unfolds.
Her tone is compassionate and direct, helping clients take small steps toward clearer choices. People who want help coping with loss, improving self-confidence, or handling ongoing stress may find her practical approach useful. Kendra works from Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
She emphasizes steady, doable changes rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small actions that reflect those values. It helps with ongoing worries and avoidance by shifting attention toward meaningful daily choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. It uses clear, practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in relationships and how early experiences shape current connection and intimacy issues. It can help people notice repeated relationship habits and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds in early sessions. Adjustments are normal as trust and insight grow.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for more in-depth conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support short check-ins, and text messaging is useful for brief reflections between sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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