About Deena
Deena Robertson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who focuses on stress and anxiety. She helps people facing depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem. Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first steps feel doable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She uses everyday conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking rather than long, abstract explanations.
Background and approach
Deena adapts the pace and topics to match each person’s needs and goals. Her practice draws from a mix of approaches that include acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and cognitive-behavioral strategies. That combination lets her address patterns that keep people stuck and offer concrete tools for handling anxiety, panic, and mood problems.
Deena also uses techniques from client-centered and dialectical behavior approaches to support better emotion regulation and communication. This can help with panic attacks, relationship stress, feelings of isolation, and struggles with guilt or shame. She pays attention to how past losses or attachment wounds show up in current relationships.
She has five years of professional experience as an LPC and works with people in Virginia. Language for sessions is English. Getting started typically begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting driven by them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and finding a clearer sense of purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying practical experiments to change feelings and behavior; it often helps with panic, mood problems, and worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and communication, which can help when abandonment or trust wounds affect close ties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Sessions can combine ideas from different approaches so the plan matches what the client needs in practice rather than sticking to one label.
Online therapy makes these methods more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotional coaching. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing skills practice between longer appointments. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to maintain alongside work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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