About Deanna
Deanna Gwynne is a PACFA counsellor with three years of one-on-one counselling experience in Australia. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress and anxiety and supports those navigating parenting challenges and life changes. She uses clear, practical ways to help clients feel steadier and more able to cope.
Deanna works from the view that each person knows their own story. She listens first and then helps clients notice strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at small, usable steps rather than long theory sessions. Her approach draws on client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviours. Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and present-moment focus when that is useful.
Deanna also uses narrative and motivational methods to help people reframe difficult experiences and find reasons to make sustainable changes. Sessions tend to balance practical tools with space to reflect on what matters most to the client. People reach out for help with anxiety, workplace stress, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem or career questions.
Deanna aims to make the process manageable by breaking issues down and setting achievable goals together.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the client as the expert in their own life. The therapist listens deeply and follows the client's lead, helping people to notice strengths and make choices that feel right for them. This approach is useful when someone needs space to talk through current struggles and clarify priorities.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, stress and concentration problems because it gives clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what matters to the client, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as goals change. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions take place. Video calls let people use body language and see each other, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress and steady support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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