About Deanna
Deanna Perrone is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people when life feels overwhelming. She meets individuals who are wondering how to feel more like themselves again. Her first aim is to create a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them.
She focuses on relationship concerns and the ways past experiences shape current patterns. That includes work on trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and challenges related to parenting and intimacy.
Background and approach
Deanna also supports people facing career stress, major life changes, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and complex family dynamics. In sessions she combines several approaches to match real needs. You may notice attention to attachment and relational patterns alongside practical strategies for managing thoughts and emotions.
She uses methods that encourage acceptance, values-driven action, and clearer communication to help people move forward. Deanna keeps the pace steady and follows the client’s lead. Conversations aim to uncover repeating patterns and build new ways of responding to stress and loss.
She blends listening with gentle challenges so people can test new behaviors between sessions. With 14 years of experience and a Texas LCSW (TX LCSW 109971), she draws on both long-term and skills-focused work. Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit different schedules and needs.
If someone wants to begin, the first step is a brief matching process and then scheduling a session.
Approaches for online relational and skills work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without fighting them, then choose actions that line up with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life transitions because it focuses on what matters most and small steps forward. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people change repeating dynamics in close relationships. That kind of work can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, blended family stress, and caregiving strain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then tailor the mix of relational exploration and skills practice. Sessions may shift over time as needs change, moving between deeper relational work and short-term coping tools.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are used for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health demands while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English