About Deena
Deena Ott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 23 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She talks calmly and directly while listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical skills that can be used between meetings to manage emotions and handle day-to-day challenges.
Deena keeps the work simple and goal-oriented. She blends approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior skills with mindfulness and attachment-informed ideas.
Background and approach
That mix helps people change unhelpful thoughts, manage intense feelings, and improve relationships with themselves and others. People come to her for help with body image and eating concerns, parenting strain, caregiver stress, or trouble with boundaries and codependency. She also supports those dealing with trauma, domestic violence, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and family of origin problems.
Sessions include concrete strategies for coping, communication practice, and steps toward repair when trust has been broken. Deena works with practical life changes too, such as career stress, divorce and separation, and compassion fatigue. She aims to teach tools that fit a person’s daily routine so improvements are sustainable.
Her style is collaborative - she sets a steady pace and will offer direction when clients want it. Deena practices in Texas and offers online formats. First meetings are framed as a conversation to clarify needs, set goals, and decide how therapy will proceed.
She helps clients find the right approach and the next steps toward feeling more steady.
How attachment, CBT, and mindfulness translate online
Attachment-informed work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to notice attachment patterns and try different ways of reaching out or setting boundaries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In virtual sessions, clients learn short exercises and homework to practice between meetings so changes carry into daily life.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These skills can be guided in a live call or reinforced through short text reminders and exercises sent between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and the therapist will suggest adjustments and new tools when useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or busy days while still learning skills and making steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English