About LaDeana
LaDeana Artis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and challenges that follow trauma and loss. She favors a straightforward, person-centered way of meeting clients where they are and talking through what feels most pressing in their lives.
She draws on several evidence-based approaches to shape practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building skills for emotional regulation, improving communication, and finding values-based ways to move forward. She also helps people manage relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, body image worries, and career-related pressure. Her background includes extensive work with trauma, abandonment and attachment concerns, and emotional dysregulation.
Over time she has blended cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-oriented work and attachment-focused methods to address both thoughts and relational patterns. This mix lets her tailor support to how each person prefers to work. LaDeana centers the client’s goals in each plan and encourages small, achievable steps.
She uses teaching, reflection, and practical exercises to help people change unhelpful habits and respond to stress more effectively. Progress is measured in real-life shifts rather than labels. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
LaDeana works with people across a range of concerns including grief, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, eating and intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that fit the person’s goals and comfort level. That collaboration may mean trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection and role-playing. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter, timely conversations. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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