About Deanna
Deanna Abraham is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and life changes. She offers calm, direct support for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Her way of working starts with listening and building a practical plan together.
She draws on 15 years of clinical experience and steps into each session with a straightforward, respectful style. She treats the person in the room as the expert on their life and helps them name goals and small steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
Sessions include tools for managing panic, mood swings, grief, process addictions, and relationship or parenting stress. Her approach mixes evidence-informed techniques with a client-centered attitude. That means she helps people try out new skills, notice what works, and adjust as needed.
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used alongside acceptance-based and skills-focused methods to address worry, avoidance, and intense emotions. Deanna has worked across different levels of care and brings that experience into practical treatment planning. She also brings experience related to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, sexual assault and abuse, and recovery from trauma.
Her background helps when a plan needs to include safety, coping skills, and steady goal-setting. Therapy sessions are offered from Texas in English. Deanna aims to help clients build more meaningful days and clearer direction, one step at a time.
How online approaches and practical therapies work together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them and then act in line with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that keep anxiety and depression going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and reducing impulsive behavior.Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, test different strategies, and adapt the plan based on what helps. Together they decide whether to emphasize behavioral skills, acceptance work, or focused problem-solving for a given concern.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging allow ongoing contact between sessions and quick skill reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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