About Delissa
Delissa Castleberry is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience based in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and parenting concerns. Her work is grounded in clear boundaries and a values-informed outlook that many clients find steadying.
Delissa asks questions and listens closely to understand each person's situation. She uses that understanding to shape simple, practical plans. Clients are encouraged to set goals and practice new skills between sessions.
Background and approach
She often points out how feelings and beliefs influence behavior, and she invites clients to test new ways of responding. Her approach draws on client-centered care and cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also includes mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people make sense of their stories and reduce stress.
Solution-focused conversations are used when the goal is to find immediate, manageable steps forward. Delissa describes counseling as a collaborative process. She helps people identify healthy boundaries, work through past hurts, and find realistic hope for change.
She frames growth as practical steps rather than abstract goals. That makes progress easier to recognize. Her education includes a master of science in education with an emphasis on counseling from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She brings two decades of practice to sessions and adapts her style to each person's needs.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports self-directed goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Delissa will talk about different methods and try things collaboratively to see what fits each person's needs and preferences. Goals and methods are adjusted as progress is made so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options help therapy fit into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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