About Deidre
Deidre McLeod is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings a practical, compassionate approach to therapy. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Sessions are down-to-earth and goal-focused to help people find clearer next steps.
With 15 years of clinical experience, she uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotion-focused techniques. Deidre adapts conversations and exercises to each person's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
That means sessions can include skills practice, guided reflection, or paced emotional processing depending on the issue. She also helps people dealing with grief, ADHD, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment struggles, adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, body image, caregiving stress, codependency, and intimacy-related topics such as kink and alternative sex culture. Deidre lists approaches including Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Jungian Therapy.
Her style is warm and interactive, and she works to create a respectful space for honest conversation. Based in Florida, she holds LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credentials (LCMHC). Sessions are offered in English and are available through a range of online formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches available online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people clarify their goals and feelings. This approach is useful for people who need a steady, understanding space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. Sessions often include short exercises, practical coping strategies, and homework to try between meetings. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress by teaching concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It can be helpful for strong emotions, anger, relationship problems, and impulsive behaviors by offering clear, step-by-step techniques to practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Clients and the therapist collaborate to adjust the plan as progress unfolds so the approach fits real needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English