About Deidre
Deidre Means is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem. She writes and speaks plainly, and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Deidre aims to make therapy feel manageable for people juggling busy lives.
She draws on eight years of clinical experience in school-based and community mental health settings. That background gives her a practical sense of how problems show up day to day.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a straightforward, client-centered approach that honors their priorities and pace. Sessions often blend talking with concrete strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods are used to notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and build on small wins. Deidre also uses trauma-focused ideas when past events are getting in the way of current functioning. She helps people understand how memories and reactions affect relationships, mood, and coping skills, then works on skills to reduce distress.
Telehealth is part of her practice, with options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She communicates in English and works from Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor. The tone in sessions is respectful, direct, and supportive.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, mirrors what is heard, and helps clients clarify what matters to them. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding what to work on first.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions look for patterns that keep difficulties going and introduce practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online appointments are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief communication between visits. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, school, and other daily demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English