About LaDeana
LaDeana Artis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 13 years of therapy experience to clients in New Jersey. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strains, and grief. Her style is direct and compassionate, helping people identify practical steps they can try between sessions.
She adapts her approach to each person’s needs instead of using one fixed method. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, strengthening attachment patterns, or building skills to tolerate strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete strategies and on understanding patterns that get in the way of change. LaDeana has worked across outpatient settings and with a wide range of concerns. She helps people with stress, addiction, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy.
She also addresses more complex issues such as dissociation, domestic violence, and mood dysregulation when they arise. In her work she mixes several approaches to match the problem at hand. That might include cognitive techniques to shift thinking, acceptance-based work to clarify values, or skills training to reduce emotional reactivity.
The choice of tools comes from what the person wants to accomplish and what feels doable. People who come to her can expect straightforward conversation, focused skill-building, and homework that fits into daily life. She encourages realistic steps and tracks progress over time.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online or by phone for those in New Jersey.
How these approaches guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, avoidance, and when someone feels stuck and wants more meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. It often includes simple exercises to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change repeating cycles in close connections, which is helpful for intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. LaDeana collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. Together they set short-term steps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English