About Deveta
Deveta Gelispie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with depression, career stress, relationship concerns, trauma, and ADHD. Deveta aims to build a strong working relationship through listening and practical support.
Deveta uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods in sessions. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. Sessions often include identifying small changes, trying new habits, and talking through how thoughts affect feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
People come to her when life shifts feel heavy. That can look like grief, anger, struggles with intimacy, or trouble sleeping. She also helps with addiction concerns, bipolar management, and challenges tied to identity or discrimination.
In therapy she emphasizes connection, empathy, and following the person’s priorities. Deveta works to create a space where a client’s experience is heard and practical next steps are clear. She invites clients to set short-term goals and track progress between sessions.
Her background blends trauma-focused techniques with motivational interviewing to support change. That mix can help when someone is wrestling with commitment, jealousy, or finding life purpose. Deveta adapts her approach to each person’s needs and preferences.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience by listening without judgment and reflecting what matters most to them. It helps people feel heard and clarifies their priorities so goals can emerge naturally.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to test unhelpful thinking and try new habits, which can be useful for depression, anxiety, and sleep problems.
Solution-focused work is short-term and action oriented. It highlights strengths, sets concrete goals, and identifies small steps that move someone toward what they want to change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try out methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback and choose pacing and techniques that match their needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins and between-session support. These options allow flexibility for scheduling, different communication preferences, and ongoing work from wherever the client is located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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