About Deana
Deana Hartshorn is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers straightforward support for relationship struggles and life transitions. Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she adapts sessions to each person's needs.
Hartshorn draws on approaches that focus on how thoughts shape feelings and actions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral ideas along with client-centered listening to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
Narrative and solution-focused tools help people rewrite difficult stories and set clear, manageable goals. With 11 years of professional experience, she has worked with people dealing with communication problems, abandonment issues, feelings of emptiness, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She also addresses guilt, shame, isolation, and concerns around life purpose and midlife transitions.
Sessions can concentrate on building self-love, strengthening communication skills, or developing coping strategies for daily stress. Hartshorn explains concepts plainly and offers practical exercises you can try between sessions. She is licensed in Colorado and Texas and practices from Texas.
Conversations are conducted in English and available through several online formats. Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits your life.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters to you. The therapist provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space and mirrors back concerns so you feel heard, which helps when working through issues like low self-esteem or life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps you spot unhelpful thoughts and try alternative ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and depression and includes practical exercises and homework that can be done between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust based on what helps you progress. This is a collaborative process where your preferences guide the plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow for a more personal feel and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can provide quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets you share thoughts in writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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What this counselor works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Texas
- Languages
- English