About Deedra
Deedra Ivie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She aims to help clients uncover strengths they already have and use those strengths to make practical changes. Deedra favors clear, step-by-step work so people can feel progress sooner rather than later.
She listens to a person's past and current life to figure out how thinking patterns shape emotions.
How Deedra works
Then she helps identify specific thoughts that trigger strong feelings. Together they learn ways to change those thoughts and try out coping skills that bring relief during intense emotions. When emotions feel extreme, she uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and better ways of relating to others.
Those skills can help reduce crisis moments and improve day-to-day functioning. Deedra blends practical skills with mindfulness practice so people learn both immediate coping and longer-term awareness. She pays attention to family of origin concerns, communication problems, codependency, and issues around guilt, shame, and life purpose.
Her work also addresses intimacy challenges, grief, obsessions and compulsions, panic, and social anxiety. She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling from Colorado Christian University. Her background includes community mental health centers, treatment facilities, and independent practice.
Outside of work she spends time homeschooling her four children and caring for a busy household of animals and gardens.
Deedra lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Deedra works with
The areas below are the ones Deedra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Using CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness Online
Deedra commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy for intense emotions. DBT teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness so people can manage crises and improve relationships.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to pick or blend techniques based on goals, needs, and preferences. That lets sessions stay practical and focused on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrating exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support, and written reminders of skills discussed in sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on concrete skills and emotional awareness.
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