About Deidre
Deidre Means, LPC, helps people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety find clearer footing. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, depression, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, focused on small steps that add up to real change.
Deidre favors straightforward conversation and active listening. Sessions usually begin by identifying one or two goals and then testing simple strategies that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses techniques from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. When trauma or past hurt is part of the story, she draws on trauma-focused methods to help people reduce distress and regain a sense of control. Solution-focused techniques are added when clients want quick, concrete ways to move forward with specific problems.
The work balances short-term problem solving and deeper emotional processing. Her background includes experience in school-based and clinical mental health settings, where she supported people through common life transitions and crises. Deidre has eight years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC).
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She practices from Texas and does not take international clients. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to availability.
Approaches used online and how they help
Deidre often uses client-centered therapy, which means she focuses on understanding each person's experience and follows the client's lead in sessions. This approach helps people feel heard and makes space for their priorities and values.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it teaches concrete skills to test and change unhelpful thoughts and reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She talks with the client about goals and preferences, and then combines methods that fit those goals. The client and therapist decide together whether to use short-term solution-focused steps, skills from CBT, or deeper trauma-focused work when needed.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief updates, coping ideas between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different life circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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