About Surnedra
Surnedra "Nedra" Simmons is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to help people facing anxiety and life strain. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients set small, practical steps toward change. Nedra aims to make sessions feel useful from the start for people juggling busy lives.
Nedra holds a master's degree in School and Professional Counseling from Amberton University and has eight years of experience as an LPC in Texas.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years working with high school students and adults, which shaped her skill at talking through motivation, school and work stresses, and self-esteem concerns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new coping skills. She also brings a solution-focused style that concentrates on short-term goals and clear next steps.
Together these approaches help when anxiety, panic, sleep problems, or grief get in the way of daily life. Nedra also supports people dealing with trauma history, addiction struggles, parenting strain, and identity-related stress including LGBT and multicultural concerns. She pays attention to practical barriers and to how life events change routine and priorities.
Sessions are collaborative and direct. Nedra helps people name a priority, try a strategy, and check whether it worked. She encourages honest conversation and lays out small actions clients can use between meetings.
How Nedra uses practical therapy online
Licensed professionals often pair short-term, evidence-based methods to address everyday struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns that increase anxiety and testing new, healthier responses. It helps with panic, sleep problems, social anxiety, and low mood by teaching concrete coping skills and small behavior changes.Solution-Focused Therapy looks ahead to what the client wants to be different and builds simple steps toward that vision. It emphasizes what is already working and uses those strengths to create rapid, manageable change. This approach is especially useful when someone needs fast, practical progress on a specific problem.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying a strategy, reviewing how it went, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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