About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people through hard times. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and addiction concerns. She also helps with relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions.
Her style is warm, straightforward, and collaborative. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. She listens for what matters most and works with each person to set clear, doable goals.
How DeAnna works
The tone in sessions is respectful and grounded rather than overly clinical. She draws on a range of approaches to match the person in front of her. That can include acceptance and commitment work to clarify values, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, and client-centered conversation to deepen self-understanding.
Dialectical and existential ideas can be added when they fit the situation. DeAnna has worked with adults through many kinds of loss, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and adoption and foster care issues. She brings long experience supporting people coping with complicated grief, compassion fatigue, and the strain of caregiving.
Sessions are offered from Arkansas with services in English. She holds licensed clinical social worker credentials in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Her background makes her a steady guide for people wanting practical tools and emotional support as they move through change.
DeAnna lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take steps that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when someone wants to move toward a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, mood problems, sleep and eating issues, and coping skills for daily stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try techniques that seem most likely to help. Adjustments are made as work unfolds so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try tools between sessions.
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