About Dedra
Dedra McIntosh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers a calm, steady presence and practical ways to manage intense feelings and repair strained connections. She uses straightforward strategies to reduce worry and build daily coping skills.
Sessions often include ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that make life easier. Dedra also focuses on handling trauma and abuse reactions so fear and shame take up less space.
Background and approach
Attachment concerns and family of origin issues are part of her work when they affect current relationships. She helps people who carry abandonment or caregiver stress learn new patterns for relating and setting boundaries. Communication problems and commitment worries are addressed with clear, teachable tools.
Her practice draws from several established approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused methods. These methods get translated into simple exercises and check-ins that clients can use between sessions. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Dedra has three years of clinical experience and holds a Florida LCSW. She provides sessions in English and offers several online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dedra often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps you notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then choose values-based actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is also a key part of her work and focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches together and adjust as needed based on progress and preference.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments, fit therapy into a busy week, and continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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