About Anedtra
Anedtra Haynes-Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship struggles. Her approach aims to help people take practical steps when life feels overwhelming.
Anedtra creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful experiences. She listens for what matters most to each person and works with them to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on what the client wants to change. She draws on therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when strong emotions or intense reactions get in the way of daily life.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship and intimacy issues. Anedtra has helped people cope with grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and career transitions. She also supports those managing compassion fatigue, ADHD, and complicated family dynamics.
The work often blends emotional support with hands-on strategies for coping and problem solving. Beginning therapy is framed as a step-by-step process. Anedtra encourages clear communication about goals and adjusts plans as needed.
Her aim is to help clients build routines and skills that fit their real lives.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, value-driven steps and can reduce avoidance of feared situations. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going. Both approaches work well through conversation, skill practice, and short homework tasks between sessions.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routines and then recommend approaches to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, with input from the person in therapy at every step.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide frequent, brief ways to touch base and practice skills between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when travel or location changes happen.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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