About Hope
Hope Spencer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She emphasizes building a strong connection first so people feel heard and understood. Hope brings 22 years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to create a warm, straightforward space where clients can talk about hard things.
Hope uses practical approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy.
Background and approach
She also draws on Client-Centered and Mindfulness methods when they fit the situation. That mix lets her tailor sessions to the issue at hand and to each person's needs. In sessions she listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps people set realistic steps forward.
She breaks down problems into manageable parts, looks for patterns that keep difficulties going, and works with clients to try new strategies. Sessions often include skill-building and simple experiments to test what works. Hope has spent more than two decades supporting people through grief, trauma, anger, self-esteem problems, and major life changes.
She also addresses concerns related to adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, attachment, autism, and blended family dynamics. Her experience covers a wide range of emotional and practical challenges. Hope practices in Mississippi and holds a Master of Science and LPC credential.
She aims for sessions that are direct but compassionate, and she uses a sense of humor when appropriate to put people at ease.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Hope commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and supporting self-directed change.Hope also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas when they fit a person's goals. Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set small, practical goals and track progress to build momentum. She will talk with each person about what feels most useful and adjust the plan together so therapy matches their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist 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
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