Surnedra "Nedra" Simmons
Change-focused counselor for practical results
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Surnedra
Surnedra "Nedra" Simmons uses goal-focused, practical therapy to help people make changes they can see and feel. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, who draws on methods that aim for clear steps forward. Nedra writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on real-life problems and solutions.
She welcomes straightforward conversation and works with clients in English from Texas and beyond. She has eight years of professional experience as an LPC and a background that includes work in school settings.
Background and approach
That time helped her learn how to talk with young people and adults facing anxiety, low motivation, trauma, and suicidal thoughts. Her experience also informs support for concerns like parenting, grief, stress, and life transitions. Nedra blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape short-term, practical plans.
She helps identify patterns that keep problems going and then tests small changes that may improve daily life. Sessions often include exercises to try between meetings and simple ways to measure progress. Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental.
She expects clients to know something about what might help and she offers tools to get there faster. Conversations are direct but empathetic, aimed at helping people reconnect with what matters to them. People who want a focused, action-oriented counselor find her style useful.
Nedra works with a wide range of concerns including depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family issues, multicultural stresses, and coping after disasters.
Practical approaches for online parenting and family concerns
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice how thoughts and behaviors interact and then try manageable changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, panic, and many everyday habits that get in the way of family life.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on finding what works now and building on small successes. It is goal driven and often helpful for parents and adults who want quick, useful strategies to test between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try techniques that fit those aims, and adjust as progress is tracked. This makes it easier to pick methods that match a family member's needs and preferences rather than committing to a single path up front.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That variety makes it simpler to fit sessions around school schedules, work, or caregiving duties. It also allows follow-up and check-ins using short messages when a full session isn’t possible, helping carry changes into daily life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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