About Deidre
Deidre McLeod is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing from Florida. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a calm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Deidre focuses on common problems like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and anger.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her approach centers on the person's needs rather than a single technique.
How Deidre works
She uses client-centered work to listen and build trust, and cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused ideas when emotions and relationships are central. Jungian perspectives appear in exploration of meaning and personal patterns.
Deidre often helps people with trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and more complex concerns such as dissociation, bipolar disorder, or caregiving stress. She also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, body image concerns, blended family dynamics, and sex culture or kink-related topics. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative.
Deidre works with each person to set goals and tries different strategies to see what fits. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support as people work toward clearer coping and improved daily functioning. Based in Florida, she conducts online sessions in English using multiple formats suited to different needs and schedules.
Deidre lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Deidre works with
The areas below are the ones Deidre 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Deidre often blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to shape online work. Client-centered therapy means sessions begin with listening and building a trusting connection, so people feel heard and seen. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT offers clear skills for managing intense feelings, tolerating distress, and improving emotional regulation, which can help with anger, mood swings, and relationship tensions. Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Deidre will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan together so therapy fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messages work well for quick updates, steady tracking, or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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