About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She draws on 30 years of experience to offer calm, steady support during hard life changes. Many people turn to her for help with parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, addiction concerns, or career stress.
DeAnna keeps the work straightforward. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and honest exploration of feelings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients try techniques that fit their day-to-day life. Her approach combines methods that teach acceptance, problem-solving, and emotional regulation. She uses tools from acceptance and commitment work and cognitive behavioral strategies to break unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical skills offer ways to manage strong emotions when needed. Over her career she has supported people facing complex issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and recovery from domestic violence or substance problems. She also helps with body image, attachment concerns, and adjustments after divorce or disaster.
DeAnna holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and practices from Arkansas. Her style is warm, practical, and collaborative. She helps people build resilience, find clearer choices, and move forward at a pace that feels right for them.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. This helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by shifting focus toward meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep issues, and managing addictive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy centers on an accepting, nonjudgmental relationship so people feel heard and can find their own answers; it supports self-esteem, grief work, and identity concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. Together they will try techniques and adjust methods if something does not fit, aiming for a plan that feels manageable and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and do deeper emotion work. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text is handy for quick check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English