About DeAndrea
DeAndrea Peterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and offers direct, practical steps so clients can move forward at their own pace. DeAndrea values steady progress and supports people through small, achievable changes.
She brings a warm, down-to-earth style to sessions and believes there are no one-size-fits-all fixes. Conversations focus on the person in front of her, not a checklist.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward tools and clear next steps you can try between meetings. DeAndrea combines hands-on strategies with a client-centered stance. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work and solution-focused methods to address unhelpful thinking and set realistic goals.
Dialectical behavior approaches and motivational interviewing also shape her way of helping people gain skills and motivation. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Alabama State University and a Master of Science in Counseling and Psychology from Troy University that focused on clinical mental health.
Much of her experience comes from working in residential, non-traditional educational, and outpatient settings with youth and individuals facing complex challenges. Common topics she addresses include relationship strain, parenting stress, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, postpartum mood changes, anger and communication problems.
DeAndrea centers clients' strengths and helps them build concrete steps toward safer, calmer days.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Client-centered therapy is about putting the client's experience first. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people identify their own goals and strengths to guide change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into concrete patterns to be changed with practical exercises that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, what has or hasn't helped before, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be used for focused check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and other responsibilities while keeping the focus on concrete skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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