About Norma
Norma Deering is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns. Norma offers support in English and Spanish and works with people facing job-related stress, caregiving strain, and major life changes.
Her approach is down-to-earth and respectful. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to build skills for daily life, increase motivation, and reduce overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Norma has long experience helping people dealing with illness, disability, and caregiving burnout. That includes support for those coping with a cancer diagnosis, dementia or Alzheimer’s in a loved one, or adjusting after an accident or new disability. She also helps with grief, trauma, and intimacy-related worries.
She brings several therapeutic approaches into sessions to match the person in front of her. Tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy are used alongside client-centered listening and other emotion-focused work. Practical strategies and emotional processing are both part of the process.
Norma also addresses concerns tied to relationships, communication, addictions, and career stress. She is available for people affected by current events or political stress that contribute to anxiety. Conversations can be in Spanish when preferred.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep trouble.Choosing the right approach is part of the first sessions. Norma works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. She mixes skill-building and emotion-focused work so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing one method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face-to-face; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited; short text or chat messages are useful for quick check-ins and between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving forward even when schedules are tight.
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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
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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