About Deep
Dr. Deep Battu is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes.
She works with adults and young adults and speaks English. She aims to make the first steps less daunting. Sessions are meant to be a calm place to talk through what feels overwhelming.
She encourages practical efforts and partners with clients to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she pays attention to how thoughts, behaviors, and the present moment connect to feelings. Together she and the client identify small, manageable changes to try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are also part of her toolbox. These approaches emphasize motivation, practical next steps, and measurable progress. They can be useful for addictions, career shifts, and building daily routines that support mood and sleep.
Dr. Battu has worked in mental health and addictions settings in Indiana and Illinois. She draws on that background when helping with trauma, relationship stress, grief, compassion fatigue, and multicultural concerns.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people make steady, lasting changes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a listening, nonjudgmental stance where the client sets the pace and topics. This approach helps people feel understood and can be especially useful when dealing with anxiety, self-esteem, grief, or relationship stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes practical exercises and homework, which can help with anxiety, obsessive patterns, mood problems, and sleep difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. The process is collaborative and adjusts as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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