About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD-related challenges. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making change feel doable for busy lives.
She focuses on practical strategies people can use between sessions. That can mean new ways to handle strong emotions, routines that improve sleep and eating, or skills to reduce work and caregiver burnout.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace set by the client and center on clear, usable steps. Her work draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening. She uses those methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns, test new behaviors, and commit to values-based choices.
The goal is to build habits that fit the person’s daily life. Clients often bring issues such as relationship strain, addiction or substance concerns, parenting stress, and body-image struggles. She also supports people coping with life transitions, chronic illness, aging concerns, and the fallout of past abandonment or adoption histories.
The focus is on making sense of hard experiences and finding forward motion. In sessions she mixes active coaching with reflective listening. That means practical homework when useful, and time to process emotions.
She works with each person to set clear goals and track progress over time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and commitment work (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and living with attention challenges. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve routines like sleep and eating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and support so clients feel heard while they explore goals and change.Finding the right mix is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and daily life. Together they review what helps, adjust tools, and decide when to shift approaches so therapy remains useful and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let people practice skills and get visual feedback. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill reminders, or when a quick note between sessions helps keep progress moving. These options aim to increase flexibility and keep therapeutic work consistent despite a packed life.
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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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