About Deanna
Deanna Mullins is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and rebuild confidence when things feel out of control.
She helps people work through trauma, grief, and depression using straightforward methods. Sessions are a place to talk through painful memories and difficult feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
The goal is to find small changes that add up to real relief. Deanna uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to spot unhelpful thinking and shift it. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and set doable goals.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is part of her toolbox for processing traumatic memories when that fits a person's needs. Her background includes practice in Idaho and Oregon and two decades of clinical work. That experience informs flexible ways to handle addiction, relationship strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and other life challenges.
Deanna emphasizes collaboration and clear suggestions rather than jargon. People meet her for help with things like parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and questions about life purpose. She supports those facing end-of-life issues, cancer, or the fallout of divorce.
Sessions aim to help people make steady progress toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Deanna commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts and develop steady coping habits. CBT focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and depression and then testing and replacing those thoughts with more useful ones. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm.She also integrates acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values even when distressing feelings remain. Together these methods are used in a collaborative way so therapist and client choose tools that fit the person's goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face work on skills and processing; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited; chat or text are useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work when life gets unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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