About DeAnna
DeAnna Christian is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio who helps people facing a wide range of life challenges. She writes and talks plainly, and aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable for worried parents and adults alike. She draws on 17 years of experience in social work and clinical practice.
That background includes supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and ADHD concerns.
Background and approach
She also brings lived experience from foster parenting, adoption, and advocacy work as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). DeAnna’s counseling style is warm and straightforward. She treats each person as an individual instead of a label, listens with respect, and responds with practical tools and steady support.
Sessions focus on small, useful changes that fit into day-to-day life. Her methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, EMDR, and mindfulness practices. She adapts those approaches to what the person needs and what feels workable for them.
She uses motivation-focused conversation to support readiness for change. People who come to her often want help with relationships, parenting strains, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, or coping with career and life transitions. DeAnna aims to create a calm space to talk through immediate problems and build longer-term coping skills.
Practical approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where a person is now, so goals and next steps come from the client's priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches simple skills to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and tolerating hard moments.Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process helps match tools to personal needs and preferences rather than prescribing one fixed path.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messages allow short updates or ongoing support between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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