About Deanna
Deanna Eshler is an Ohio-based licensed professional counselor, LPCC, with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, relationship problems, anger, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her work also covers self-esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching for practical next steps.
She uses several evidence-informed approaches to fit each person's needs. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, improving communication, and building coping skills.
Background and approach
She shifts methods based on what is helping, rather than following a single manual. Deanna draws on two decades of work in community mental health, foster and adoption services, schools, and intensive home-based programs. That background informs how she recognizes trauma responses and thinks about healing over time.
She often incorporates discussion of family patterns and attachment when relevant. In the room she aims to be practical and respectful. Conversations are tailored so people leave with clear strategies they can try between sessions.
She emphasizes collaboration and helps people set realistic goals. Deanna values compassion and sensitivity in her practice. She works to empower people as they make changes, whether the work is short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work.
The focus is on steady progress and usable tools for everyday life.
Approaches for online healing and skill building
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust, and how their relationships influence reactions to stress and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name their emotions and change unhelpful interaction patterns in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Sessions may begin with one approach and shift over time as needs change, keeping the client's priorities central to planning.
Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to meet face-to-face without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care when circumstances change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English