About Deanna
Deanna Dillard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 18 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel heard and understood from the start.
She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be discussed without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings, rather than only talking about problems.
Background and approach
That approach helps people build routines, manage emotions, and regain a sense of control. Deanna uses client-centered methods that follow each person’s pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful habits.
When relationships are a focus, she incorporates Gottman-informed techniques to improve communication and reduce conflict. Her work also attends to identity-related concerns such as LGBT issues and gender dysphoria, and to complex situations like trauma, grief, hoarding, or multicultural stressors. Deanna aims to meet people where they are and tailor plans to their life demands.
People who appreciate practical guidance and steady encouragement tend to do well with her. She supports clients through life transitions, career strain, parenting stress, and managing long-term mood or behavioral challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are accessible to international clients as well.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can clarify their own goals and make changes at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habits people want to change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, life demands, and preferences, and they will try methods that fit those needs. Decisions are collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made or new challenges arise.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video works well for in-depth conversations and when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, quick problem-solving, or support between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy routines, travel, or irregular schedules while keeping the focus on making practical changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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