About Hope
Hope Spencer is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on building a strong working relationship first. She aims to make clients feel heard and understood before moving into specific strategies. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, with a warm manner that helps people talk about hard things.
With 22 years of experience, she draws on multiple therapy styles to meet different concerns. That can include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Solution-Focused Therapy for short-term goals, and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the client's experience central.
Background and approach
She adapts methods to the issue rather than forcing a single model. Hope works with many common life challenges such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people coping with ADHD, bipolar concerns, eating and self-esteem problems, and major life changes.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, and family of origin problems. Sessions are practical and conversational. Hope listens closely, asks helpful questions, and offers concrete tools when they fit the situation.
She says a little humor and human experience can make difficult work easier. Clients in Mississippi will find an experienced counselor who values clear communication and steady support. Hope encourages people to bring their real worries and goals, and she works with them to find realistic next steps.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Hope often uses Client-Centered Therapy to make the client feel heard and respected; this approach focuses on understanding the person's perspective and building rapport, which helps when discussing sensitive topics like grief or family issues.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. CBT offers concrete tools and exercises that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Hope will discuss goals, preferences, and needs and then tailor a plan. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively whether to emphasize exploration, skill-building, or short-term solution work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video suits in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing notes and brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English