About Deanna
Deanna Murray, LMFT, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her aim is to help clients build clearer thinking, stronger relationships, and better daily coping skills.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify practical steps clients can try between sessions. Deanna draws on client-centered methods to keep the work focused on each person’s values and goals.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot thinking patterns that feed worry and to practice small behavior changes. Her background includes 13 years of work as a licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas. That experience includes helping people with grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem.
She also supports people coping with family of origin issues, communication problems, and midlife transitions. Sessions typically look like guided conversation with concrete tools to manage stress and anxiety. Deanna helps people break issues into manageable steps, try new approaches, and track what helps.
She encourages realistic goals and adjustments as needed. Clients can expect a respectful and nonjudgmental tone. Deanna says the first step takes courage and she aims to support people through that first stretch and beyond.
How Deanna’s Approaches Work Online
Deanna often combines client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-centered work means the conversation centers on what each person values and wants to change, while the therapist listens and reflects. Cognitive-behavioral ideas focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors that reduce worry and improve functioning.She also uses emotionally-focused methods when relationship or intimacy concerns come up. This approach helps people notice patterns in emotional responses and practice different ways of connecting. Together, these approaches aim to make problems clearer and to test practical steps that can be used in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Deanna will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. She helps clients try different strategies and adjusts the plan over time based on what fits and helps most.
Online therapy with her is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can be a shorter check-in or an on-the-go option. These formats make it easier to keep regular sessions and to use tools between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
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