About Deanna
Deanna MacDonald is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and relationship strain. She supports those facing body image concerns, addictions, grief, trauma, parenting stress, and career pressure. Deanna offers practical guidance for issues like sleep trouble, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and compassion fatigue.
Deanna takes a collaborative, respectful approach in sessions. She focuses on listening first, then helping people set clear, achievable goals.
How Deanna works
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on skills people can use between meetings. Deanna draws on therapies that emphasize action and present-day coping. She uses techniques to change unhelpful thinking, build new habits, and increase tolerance for difficult feelings.
Motivational strategies are used when someone wants help finding direction or making changes. Clients can expect a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper work on patterns that keep recurring. Deanna helps people practice new ways of responding to stress and conflict.
She also works with challenges like guilt, shame, self-harm thoughts, and issues tied to identity. With seven years of direct counseling experience, Deanna blends practical tools with a warm, nonjudgmental stance. She helps people create manageable plans and track progress over time.
Her goal is to help clients feel more capable and in control of daily life.
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What Deanna works with
The areas below are the ones Deanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and still move toward what matters. It emphasizes values and small actions that create a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to manage intense feelings and conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deanna will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose or combine techniques that fit the person and the problem, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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