About Deena
Deena Ott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and other life challenges. She works in Texas and offers straightforward, calm support to help clients build coping skills and make gradual changes. Her approach is practical and focused on what will help day to day.
Deena blends short-term skills with deeper work on patterns that keep problems returning.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness to reduce reactivity. Sessions are led by the client’s needs and pace.
Deena listens without judgment and offers clear prompts or exercises when useful. The room is a place to practice new habits, talk through painful events, and plan realistic next steps. She helps people facing family-related stress, parenting strain, caregiving burden, body image and eating concerns, and issues tied to adoption, abandonment, or attachment.
Deena also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, career stress, and relationship communication problems. New clients can expect a first meeting that is an honest conversation about goals and fit. Deena emphasizes collaboration and will work with each person to set small, achievable targets.
Her years of practice aim to balance steady support with practical tools for everyday life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Deena commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, low mood, and daily coping. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, useful for strong mood swings and relationship strain. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods feel helpful and realistic for everyday life. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls let people connect face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework exchanges, or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility for work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when a shorter contact is all that fits.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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