About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She brings 30 years of experience to conversations about coping, recovery, and finding new ways to move forward. She focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
Sessions aim to build coping skills, increase self-compassion, and create routines that reduce overwhelm. She also supports people dealing with addiction, sleep or eating problems, anger, and career strain.
Background and approach
Her approach blends several therapy methods. DeAnna uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take workable steps. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns that keep problems going.
Client-centered work shapes the pace and priorities of each session. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through hard issues. DeAnna listens for what matters most, then helps set small, achievable goals.
She encourages practical experiments between sessions so progress shows up in day-to-day life. Her background includes long experience in trauma recovery, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. DeAnna has worked with people navigating adoption and attachment questions, chronic illness, and major life transitions.
She holds an LCSW in Arkansas and Oklahoma and offers services in English. For people looking for flexible options, she provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online convenience
DeAnna commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite hard feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep problems in place and testing new ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day realities. Sessions are adjusted over time so techniques fit the person rather than the person fitting a technique.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when an in-person visit is difficult. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a better fit when video is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions or get support when schedules are tight. These formats increase flexibility while keeping the focus on steady, useful progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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