About Deia
Deia Lawrence welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck. She helps clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Deia aims to make sessions practical and down to earth so parents can find relief that fits their life.
She approaches therapy with a person-centered focus that treats the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Deia brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help rethink unhelpful patterns.
How Deia works
She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to improve emotional connection and Mindfulness practices to reduce stress in daily life. Deia has 18 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, working with people from varied ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
She has worked with survivors of sexual and physical trauma, people of color, and members of the LGBT community, helping with identity questions, marginalization, and post-traumatic difficulties. Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, attachment and blended family concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin matters.
She also addresses abandonment, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, and multicultural concerns. Deia draws on her own experience as a parent of a child with special needs to inform practical supports for parents facing similar challenges. She volunteers on a nonprofit board serving socioeconomically disadvantaged families, mainly Latino communities.
Outside work she enjoys watching Jeopardy!, playing with her cat, and hosting friends and family.
Deia lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Deia works with
The areas below are the ones Deia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals according to their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change habits that get in the way of daily life.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and connection. It can help people identify and shift hard emotional cycles that affect relationships and intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new concerns arise.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or pacing communication over time. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules and to stay connected between sessions.
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