About Norma
Norma Deering is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety while helping people regain confidence and motivation. She offers straightforward, empathetic support for depression, self-esteem struggles, and issues tied to identity including LGBT concerns.
Norma also helps with job-related anxiety and provides guidance on job-seeking skills and building motivation for work changes. Norma works with people facing caregiving burnout and those caring for loved ones with cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other disabilities.
Background and approach
She also supports individuals adjusting after an accident or new disability, addressing the anxiety or depression that can follow such events. The approach is collaborative and tailored. Conversations and plans are shaped to fit each person’s situation, values, and goals.
Norma emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. She can provide services in English and Spanish. Sessions may include short-term skills work as well as longer-term support for ongoing life changes or chronic stress.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and Norma offers steady guidance to help people move forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and life stress
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small steps toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety or when life feels overwhelming.Client-Centered Therapy creates space for people to speak and be heard. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offering empathy and reflection to build confidence and clarity about next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Norma will collaborate to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences rather than applying one fixed plan. That process may blend elements from different approaches to support symptom relief and practical change.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, caregiving, or health challenges.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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