About Deanna
Deanna (Dani) Minsky helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She supports those coping with life changes, relationship strain, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Dani also addresses issues like ADHD, eating concerns, anger, and low self-esteem.
She works with people who are sorting through family of origin issues, attachment wounds, and multicultural or immigration-related stress. Dani is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, based in Maine and brings nine years of practice experience.
Background and approach
Before her current work she practiced in schools across Maine and Massachusetts. There she supported parents and caregivers, worked with teachers and other providers, and addressed compassion fatigue and boundary setting. Her approach blends Attachment-Based methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems.
In sessions she aims to map how a person’s relationships and life events shape current struggles. She uses practical strategies alongside deeper exploration of personal stories and patterns. Clients can expect a respectful, steady presence that values their knowledge of their own life.
Dani emphasizes collaboration and honest conversation about what helps and what does not. She offers space to try new ways of coping and to strengthen supports that already exist. Dani frames therapy as a team effort focused on realistic steps and meaningful change.
She welcomes people whether they are new to therapy or returning after a break. Her goal is to build trust and a nonjudgmental environment where progress can happen at a comfortable pace.
Online approaches that connect relationships and healing
Attachment-Based work looks at how early and current relationships affect feelings and behavior. It helps when trust, closeness, or patterns with others cause distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving practical skills to try between sessions. Trauma-Focused Therapy attends directly to past hurts and overwhelming experiences while helping build coping strategies for daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Dani treats the first few sessions as a chance to learn what matters to the client and what feels useful. She collaborates on goals and adjusts methods based on each person’s needs, preferences, and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility and many ways to stay connected. Video calls let people work face to face when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for simpler check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, timely touchpoints and ongoing check-ins between longer sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English