About Ondria
Ondria Spivey, LPC-MHSP, helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship strain, compassion fatigue, career concerns, life changes, and ADHD. She offers practical guidance and listens for what matters most to each person. Her approach blends practical strategies with attention to personal values and faith when clients want that included.
Spivey has 24 years of experience working in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings. She has held roles as Clinical Director at a residential treatment center for children and youth and at an outpatient counseling center.
Background and approach
She now practices independently in Tennessee. Her work combines several approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and taking actions that matter. Narrative and Solution-Focused therapies look at the stories people tell and build on strengths to create change. Faith is an important part of her personal life and may be included in sessions when a client wants it.
For those who share or want to explore faith, scripture and prayer can be part of the work. For others, the focus is on evidence-based psychological tools and everyday steps that produce change. Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and goal oriented.
Spivey helps people identify concrete next steps, practice new skills, and track small wins. She emphasizes rebuilding healthier relationships and finding steady ways to cope with difficult situations.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for stress, life changes, and ongoing worries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change feelings and routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides ways to reduce the hold of painful memories and build safer daily routines after traumatic events.Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods, adjust plans, and pick tools that match the client's life and needs rather than forcing a single technique.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and do longer work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day routines.
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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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