Hope Spencer, LPC

Hope Spencer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with 22 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, family concerns, anger, depression, ADHD, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

Hope emphasizes building a reliable working relationship before moving into methods. She listens and then selects approaches that fit the problem at hand. Those approaches include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies.

Her practice also addresses adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and co-morbidity. Additional areas she helps people sort through are commitment and control issues, dependent personality patterns, disruptive mood dysregulation, divorce and separation, feelings of emptiness, and family of origin issues.

In sessions she uses plain conversation, practical tools, and short-term goals when helpful. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thinking and behavior patterns. Solution-focused work narrows in on immediate steps a person can try. Client-centered work gives people space to speak and be heard.

Hope draws on two decades of clinical work alongside life experience. She aims to keep interactions straightforward and occasionally light. People looking to address long-standing family patterns or current life stressors often start by describing the most pressing problem they want to change.

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