About Deidre
Deidre McLeod is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and practices from Florida. Her style is warm and interactive, aimed at making people feel heard as they work through stress, worry, and life changes.
She uses client-centered methods to build trust and create a safe space for honest conversation.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical coping skills. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and emotionally-focused ideas support emotion regulation and clearer communication. Deidre also draws on Jungian ideas when helpful, inviting exploration of personal meaning and recurring life patterns.
She works with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD challenges, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, anger, and issues with self-esteem or commitment. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, body image, and caregiver stress. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Conversations aim to be practical and paced to each person’s goals. Deidre helps clients identify next steps, develop new skills, and cope with change. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathetic relationship where the person leads the pace and topics. This approach helps people feel understood and encourages honest conversation about worries like anxiety and stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it breaks problems into concrete steps and exercises.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Those skills help with anger, relationship struggles, and emotional overwhelm.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit tight schedules and provide shorter, focused check-ins between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so work on anxiety and other concerns can fit daily life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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