About Deanna
Deanna (Dani) Minsky is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and life changes. She works with concerns such as relationship and family strain, parenting pressure, eating and body image issues, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Dani practices from Maine and offers supportive, practical guidance for people trying to get through hard periods. She keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative.
How Deanna works
Dani listens to what matters most to each person and uses clear tools to reduce distress and build coping skills. Her style is calm and direct, with room for storytelling and practical problem solving. Dani blends approaches that look at relationships, inner parts, and current thoughts and behaviors.
She draws on Attachment-Based ideas to map how relationships shape feelings, and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Trauma-focused work and Narrative Therapy help people reframe painful memories and make meaning from difficult events. Before her current work she spent years in schools across Maine and Massachusetts as a clinical social worker.
That experience included supporting parents, caregivers, teachers, and other providers around boundaries, compassion fatigue, and adapted strategies for young people’s needs. She holds a Maine LCSW, has nine years of experience, and conducts sessions in English. Dani aims to make the therapy space one the client owns, and she helps people figure out next steps that fit their life and goals.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Deanna uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior; this helps when past and present connections affect stress and self-worth. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday coping. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process painful events and reduce their hold on daily life by working step by step through memories and reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Dani works together with each client to figure out what fits best based on the person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different methods and adjusting the plan over time until something feels helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently across weeks.
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