Deedra Ivie helps clients recognize and strengthen the resilience they already possess, guiding each person toward progress and greater peace. She approaches therapy with attention to each client’s unique upbringing and life circumstances, exploring past experiences, current thinking patterns, and present challenges to determine the most effective path forward.

Deedra most often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to support people coping with depression and anxiety. She works collaboratively to identify the specific emotions a person is feeling, trace those feelings back to the underlying thoughts, and then reshape the thoughts while teaching practical coping skills for relief during intense emotional moments.

For clients facing more intense or fluctuating emotions, Deedra draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She guides clients through DBT’s core skills areas – mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness – often beginning with distress tolerance and mindfulness to establish immediate symptom relief, then progressing to emotion regulation and improving how clients relate to others.

Deedra earned a Master’s degree in Counseling from Colorado Christian University and has ten years of clinical experience working in community mental health centers, treatment facilities, and in private practice. She maintains licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado (LPC number 0005775) and in Missouri (LPC number 2022006994) and is based in Missouri.

Outside of her work she is married and raises four children whom she homeschools. Much of her free time is spent outdoors with her family and on the family’s small homestead, which includes pigs, goats, dogs, chickens, bees, and a garden. She looks forward to learning more about each person she meets and discovering how she can help.