About Deana
Deana Steele is a licensed professional counselor who has worked in Colorado for over 21 years. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, stress, family concerns, parenting challenges, and self-esteem struggles. Her long experience means she knows how overwhelming these problems can feel and how small changes add up over time.
She sees individuals facing obsessive-compulsive patterns, mood disorders, personality challenges, and the effects of traumatic brain injury. She also supports young adults and people on the autism spectrum, offering clear, practical ways to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to uncover patterns that keep problems repeating and to build realistic steps toward change. Deana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. That means practical methods rooted in research rather than trends.
She tailors the work to each person, focusing on what will help most in day-to-day life. Her style is calm and direct. She listens closely and offers tools to manage symptoms and handle family tensions.
Parents will find straightforward strategies for parenting stress and for managing family problems without blame. Clients can expect a steady, goal-oriented process. Therapy includes skill practice, problem-solving, and check-ins on what is and isn't working.
The aim is to help people feel more capable, regulated, and connected to their goals.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Deana draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on change through practice. One common approach helps people identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and ease obsessive-compulsive patterns. Another approach targets interpersonal patterns and emotion regulation to reduce crises and improve steady relationships and self-control.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will review your needs, goals, and preferences and recommend methods that match what you want to change. That process is collaborative and adjusts over time as goals evolve.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different days and needs. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill teaching, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English