About Deidra-Ann
Deidra-Ann Leiba Masese is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and handle major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. Many clients she sees carry heavy responsibilities and want tools to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She offers a calm, respectful space where people can stop trying to hold everything together. Sessions mix straightforward reflection with practical steps.
Background and approach
Conversations often look at patterns in relationships and daily life that keep stress and overwhelm in place. Her work draws on approaches that emphasize connection and clear thinking. That can mean looking at attachment patterns, tracing thoughts and behaviors that fuel worry, or using relationship-focused methods when intimacy or communication is strained.
The goal is to help people make small changes that add up to real relief. Deidra-Ann has 12 years of experience and practices in Texas. She aims to help people build emotional strength, set healthier boundaries, and find clearer priorities.
Her style is steady and supportive, with a focus on practical coping skills. People who come for help may be dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship problems, addiction concerns, parenting strain, or challenges with self-esteem and identity. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and family of origin issues when these affect daily functioning.
In sessions she partners with each person to set goals and try approaches that fit their life. The work is collaborative and paced to what the client needs and can sustain.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape how someone trusts, connects, and reacts under stress. This approach can help people who struggle with closeness, fear of rejection, or recurring relationship conflict by tracing patterns and trying different ways of responding.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace. The therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear, and follows the client's lead to help people feel understood and discover what changes matter most to them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean trying one idea for several sessions and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging makes brief check-ins and ongoing support easier between sessions. These options help people get care that fits their schedule, pace, and comfort while still using the therapist's chosen approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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