About Deanna
Deanna Williams is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and addiction. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to create a calm, practical space for people to talk about what feels hard right now. She uses straightforward conversation to identify immediate concerns and workable next steps.
Sessions often focus on building emotional regulation skills and clearer communication.
Background and approach
Deanna pays attention to how life events, health challenges, and caregiving roles add to pressure and burnout. Her work includes supporting people after loss and during major life transitions. She also helps those facing substance use challenges and co-occurring mood concerns like bipolar disorder.
When relevant, she addresses isolation and the specific stresses that come with aging, cancer, or end-of-life care. Deanna draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions.
Motivational interviewing techniques are brought in to support change when someone wants to adjust habits or substance use. Clients can expect practical skill-building, clear communication about goals, and a steady, respectful presence in sessions. Deanna holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices from Alabama, working in English.
Therapeutic approaches and convenient online care
Deanna commonly uses client-centered therapy to keep conversations focused on each person's needs. This approach centers on listening and reflecting so goals emerge from what matters most to the individual. It is useful for people feeling overwhelmed, isolated, or unsure where to begin.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT includes practical exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used when intense emotions or relationship patterns cause frequent distress; those skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the work fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation across distances, phone can fit into a busy day with less bandwidth, live chat and texting let someone check in between sessions or use shorter messages for quick support. These options make it easier to build therapy into work, caregiving, or health schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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