Some people come to therapy ready to be challenged. If you're not one of them — if you're at the point where one more person being direct with you might be the thing that ends it — Ondria is who you want.
She is genuinely, unhurriedly gentle. She won't push you toward a realization before you're standing steadily enough to hold it. She won't decide what your problem is in the first session and spend the next ten proving it. If you need three months to say the actual thing out loud, she'll still be there in month four, and she won't have been quietly waiting the whole time.
That patience isn't passivity. She advocates hard for her clients, and if something is being done to you, she'll say so. But she starts from the assumption that you know your own life better than she does.
Before counseling she spent fifteen years in leadership and operations, managing people through change. She came to this as an adult with a whole career behind her, not straight out of a classroom.
She works with adolescents and adults on anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and the periods where everything is shifting at once.
