About Deedra
Deedra Ivie is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps. Deedra listens to each person's history and current situation to shape the work together.
She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people name their feelings and trace them back to the thoughts that drive them. That makes it easier to try new thinking patterns and to practice coping skills that reduce intense emotions.
Background and approach
For stronger emotional swings she often draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Deedra explains skills in everyday language and gives simple exercises to practice between meetings.
She also helps people navigate relationship struggles, issues tied to family of origin, grief, and questions around life purpose. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling from Colorado Christian University and work in community mental health, treatment facilities, and independent practice. Deedra brings a practical, calm style shaped by a decade of seeing common patterns and workable solutions.
Outside of work she is married and homeschools four children, and spends much of her free time outdoors with animals and the garden. She aims to build an easy, collaborative plan so people can start feeling steadier and more in control.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skills practice
Deedra commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is used for stronger emotions and teaches concrete skills like distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness that can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She works with each person to choose which methods to try first and adjusts the plan based on progress, goals, and personal preference. Sessions often start with simple skills and build from there so people can see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face-to-face when visual cues matter, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing skill coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Missouri
- Languages
- English