About Ondrea
Ondrea Hairston is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or changes in their lives. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and supports people through practical problem solving and steady listening.
She draws on a variety of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions focus on understanding relationships, patterns that keep problems stuck, and small skills that reduce daily stress.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to what the client can use between visits. Ondrea trained at the University of Washington, earning a Master of Social Work in 2005 while raising a family. That background informs her understanding of juggling work, family, and life transitions.
Her twenty years in social work include community and clinical settings that shaped a practical outlook on care. People come for help with relationship trouble, caregiver strain, feelings of isolation, and the effects of trauma. She also supports veterans and first responders, and addresses concerns such as postpartum depression and life-purpose questions.
Treatment tends to combine talking, behavior-focused tools, and mindfulness practice. Her style is open and nonjudgmental. She works collaboratively to set goals and tracks progress in simple steps.
For someone ready to try therapy, Ondrea focuses on steady improvements and realistic strategies that fit daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape expectations for closeness and trust. In sessions this can help people understand why certain relationship patterns cause anxiety or conflict and offer ways to try new, healthier responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and small behaviors that reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and life demands and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or shorter updates easier to fit into a busy day. Together these options help people keep continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Texas, New York
- Languages
- English
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