About Ondrea
Ondrea Haydel is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and parenting challenges. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style to make conversations feel manageable. Ondrea aims to create an atmosphere where clients can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings without judgment.
She helps people facing family conflict and blended family issues find clearer ways to communicate. She also supports those coping with life changes, caregiver stress, and the emotional effects of medical concerns such as cancer.
Background and approach
Practical issues like money worries, commitment struggles, and career or life purpose questions are part of her work. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods chosen to fit each person. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people commit to values-led action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-centered techniques keep the client’s priorities front and center. Sessions include brief problem-solving and motivational conversation when useful.
Ondrea also addresses concerns such as postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, dissociation, and feelings of isolation. Her style is collaborative and goal-focused, aiming for small, practical changes that add up over time. People who contact her typically want clear options and a calm space to sort things out.
She encourages small steps and offers support for the work between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for changing thinking patterns and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, low mood, and confidence problems.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest ways to apply these methods together. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to each person’s situation and keeps the work focused on concrete steps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, homework check-ins, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English