About DeAnna
DeAnna Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of experience helping people through stressful and confusing times. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that match each person’s needs. Her work often addresses anxiety, relationship strain, parenting stress, and major life changes.
She uses a blend of approaches that centers the client’s experience. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. DeAnna helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and build clearer ways of relating to themselves and others.
Background and approach
DeAnna has worked with a wide range of concerns over two decades in Pennsylvania. That experience includes helping people cope after relationship setbacks, process infidelity, and manage the emotional impact of HIV or AIDS. She brings a calm, straightforward style to those topics.
Her methods include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, the Gottman method for relationship issues, and mindfulness practices. She explains tools plainly and practices them together with the person in session so skills can be used outside of therapy. People who choose her often want practical help with self-esteem, stress, and family challenges.
DeAnna aims to create a space where people can talk honestly, learn useful skills, and leave sessions with manageable next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
DeAnna uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. That approach focuses on listening carefully and shaping sessions around the client's goals and values. It helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental space to make sense of their feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or stress. CBT introduces practical skills for changing unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. Emotionally-focused work is used for relationship concerns to identify emotional patterns and improve how people connect and respond to each other.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist and client will discuss goals and try methods that match those goals and the person's preferences. Plans are adjusted as needed so the approach fits how someone likes to work and what they hope to change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, written reflection, or when a person prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep practicing skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Coping with life changes
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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