About Deidra
Deidra Bentley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She also helps people facing identity questions, intimacy-related problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions aim to be a place to talk, sort priorities, and try small, practical changes. She uses tools that help people notice thoughts and feelings, build coping skills, and make choices that match their values.
How Deidra works
Deidra draws from approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. She may also use elements from dialectical behavior and existential therapy when they fit a person's goals. These methods are offered in ways that emphasize present-moment awareness and workable strategies.
Her background includes over a decade of clinical experience in Georgia as an LPC. That experience informs how she helps people manage life transitions, addiction concerns, and complex trauma or family-of-origin issues. She pays attention to how identity and social context shape stress and coping.
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Deidra aims to help people build clearer communication, stronger boundaries, and steadier day-to-day coping. The focus is on small steps that lead to more stability and a greater sense of agency.
Deidra lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Deidra works with
The areas below are the ones Deidra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Deidra often uses acceptance and commitment work to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to clarify what matters most. That approach helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes by linking small actions to personal values.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT-style work is useful for managing stress, panic, and problems like problematic substance use by teaching concrete skills to change responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She talks with each person about their needs and goals, and together they choose methods that feel practical and realistic. The plan can shift over time as progress or new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or continued reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied routines.
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