About Deanna
Deanna Laur is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plain language and aims to make first steps feel achievable. She focuses on practical ways to build confidence and cope with change.
She often works with people facing relationship strain, anger, and low self-esteem. Deanna helps clients with communication problems, control issues, workplace challenges, and mood-related concerns. Sessions focus on what matters now and on small, useful changes.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on listening and forming a plan with each person. She uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s priorities. She also draws on solution-focused methods to identify strengths and immediate steps forward.
In sessions she tailors conversations and goals to the individual. That can mean short-term problem solving or longer work on confidence and self-love. She aims to be respectful, sensitive, and compassionate while keeping sessions grounded and practical.
Deanna notes that signing up for therapy is often a brave first move. She helps people schedule next steps and build routines that support coping with life changes. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It begins with listening closely to what matters to you and shaping sessions around your goals and values. This approach helps when people need respect, understanding, and guidance that follows their pace.Solution-focused therapy looks for strengths and steps you can take right away. Sessions often identify small, realistic changes that build momentum toward clearer goals. This method can be useful for stress, anxiety, workplace problems, and immediate relationship or communication concerns.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about your needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit you. If something isn’t working, she will adjust the focus so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy with this clinician can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, quick tools, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep steady progress from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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