About Deana
Deana Medina is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She meets each person with respect and warmth. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people who want change.
Deana focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. She works with concerns such as trauma, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses related issues like attachment struggles, communication problems, guilt and shame, and obsessive thoughts.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then tailors a plan to fit the individual. That plan may include tools to manage emotions, skills to reduce anxious thoughts, and strategies to improve relationships. Conversations are aimed at building choices that match a person's values and goals.
She draws on several approaches to shape the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers ways to notice and shift unhelpful thinking. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes living toward what matters most, even with discomfort.
Attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening help deepen understanding of relationship patterns. Deana has four years of professional experience in California as an LMFT. She offers sessions in English.
If someone is ready to begin, she helps them take steady steps toward clearer thinking, calmer days, and more meaningful connections.
Therapeutic approaches useful in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them and then choose actions that match their values. It is often helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments to reduce symptoms and improve mood. It works well for anxiety, obsessions, and depressive thinking. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current interactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, and treatment plans are adjusted together based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when less bandwidth or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick reflections, brief check-ins, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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