About Ondria
Ondria Spivey, LPC-MHSP, focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue, grief, career changes, and life adjustments. Her approach aims to make everyday life feel more manageable and meaningful.
Spivey draws on 24 years of experience in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings. She has held clinical director roles at a residential treatment center for children and youth and at an outpatient counseling center.
Background and approach
She now practices independently in Tennessee and brings experience with adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin issues, fertility-related stress, and forgiveness work. In sessions she blends common-sense strategies with proven therapeutic methods. Ondria uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change the thoughts that affect mood and action.
She also uses acceptance and commitment methods to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps toward them. Narrative and solution-focused techniques are part of her toolbox when people want to reshape the stories they tell about themselves or find small, practical steps that make a difference fast. Trauma-focused approaches are available for those coping with abuse or traumatic loss.
Her style is straightforward and faith-informed for clients who wish to include spiritual resources such as scripture and prayer. At the same time she adapts methods to each person’s situation, looking for what makes sense and what helps someone move toward more peaceful, joyful living.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it emphasizes action and meaning rather than only symptom reduction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In online sessions this can mean learning to spot unhelpful thoughts, trying out different responses, and tracking results between appointments to see what works for everyday problems like worry or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then try methods that fit the person. That choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and texting allow shorter check-ins and flexibility around work or family schedules. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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