Anedtra Haynes-Thompson, LPC

Anedtra Haynes-Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, motivation, and a range of life stressors. Her approach aims to make it easier to bring hard topics into the room and talk about them plainly.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space and encourages clients to say what they really feel. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, helping people identify small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable. She uses practical tools to address anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with major life changes.

Anedtra blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs. That can include cognitive-behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take steps, and attachment-informed work to understand relationship patterns. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical behavior strategies to build coping skills and improve emotion regulation.

Her background includes work with addictions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, and grief. She also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, body image, and commitment or control issues. This range gives her multiple ways to approach a problem.

Beginning therapy can feel hard. Anedtra focuses on small, practical steps and clear goals. She aims to help people move forward with more confidence and better tools for everyday life.

Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online

Anedtra often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take manageable steps toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change patterns of thinking that feed anxiety, depression, or anger. CBT offers concrete exercises and homework that many people find helpful for immediate symptom relief and long-term change.

Attachment-Based Therapy is part of her work when relationship patterns and closeness issues come up. This approach looks at how early connection styles shape current reactions and helps people try new, healthier ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each client to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The practical benefits of online therapy can include easier fitting of sessions into busy schedules, shorter check-ins when needed, and options that reduce travel time. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available online options before booking. Many people find that working with a licensed professional remotely makes it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.