About Deonia
Deonia Young is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She uses clear, direct conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also addresses parenting concerns, relationship and family issues, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD in straightforward ways.
Deonia draws from several evidence-based approaches to shape each session. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and coping strategies are needed. Attachment-Based ideas help explore how early relationships influence current patterns. Sessions often include goal-setting and short practical exercises.
She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and build small routines that fit daily life. Many conversations focus on concrete tools for handling grief, loss, impulsivity, or feelings of isolation. She has six years of clinical experience as a licensed social worker and holds the credentials LICSW, LCSW, and CSW.
Deonia practices in Georgia and offers sessions in English. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, family of origin issues, body image, and midlife concerns. People who choose her describe therapy as collaborative and skills-focused.
She encourages gradual progress and adjusts methods to match a person’s pace and goals. Deonia aims to make therapy usable between sessions so change can stick.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and guided reflection to notice patterns and rehearse healthier responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions this often means short exercises, thought records, and homework you can use between meetings to test new ways of coping.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try a method and adjust it as needed so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation and work well for deep discussion and skills coaching. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and are useful when talking without video is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging can be a quick way to check in, practice short coping skills, or get reminders about tools from sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Alabama, Georgia
- Languages
- English