About Deidra
Deidra Bentley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience supporting adults through major life shifts and everyday struggles. She offers a welcoming space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addictions, or ADHD. Deidra aims to help clients feel steadier and more capable of handling what comes next.
Her work focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take action that matters. Deidra emphasizes collaboration. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to address identity, trauma, and how stress shows up in the body.
She pays attention to cultural factors and to the specific pressures faced by LGBTQ people and others from marginalized groups. Clients can expect clear strategies for managing symptoms and habits, plus space to process painful experiences. Deidra helps with communication, boundaries, and rebuilding a sense of purpose after loss or burnout.
Her approach blends practical skills with emotional reflection. Based in Georgia, she works with people navigating parenting strain, intimacy concerns, attachment issues, and first responder stress among other challenges. Deidra supports people as they learn new ways to cope and move toward more balanced daily living.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values. It helps when you feel stuck or avoidant and want to build a life that fits your priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic habits.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to use and when to shift course.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face sessions when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or daytime support between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can happen around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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