About Deanna
Deanna Abraham is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel understandable for those who are worried or unsure about reaching out. Her practice emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions.
She brings 15 years of experience across many levels of care. Before licensure she worked as an associate certified Applied Behavioral Analyst, and that background informs how she structures treatment and measures progress.
Background and approach
Deanna treats mood disorders and panic as well as longer-term issues like grief, addiction, and recovery from sexual assault and abuse. In sessions she centers the client as the expert on their life.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs, such as cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. Motivational interviewing helps when people are stuck or ambivalent about change. Deanna also supports people facing life transitions, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care challenges, and career-related strain.
She talks through practical strategies for coping, building self-love, and reducing shame. Sessions aim to leave people with clear next steps and a sense of forward motion. Her work is collaborative and goal-oriented.
People who want straightforward, respectful guidance and tools they can use right away may find her style a good fit.
Approach, methods, and how online sessions fit
Deanna commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches specific techniques to shift unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay relevant and practical for the person’s needs.
Online therapy with Deanna is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English