About Norma
Norma Deering is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and LGBT-related concerns. Norma speaks English and Spanish and offers straightforward help for everyday struggles.
Norma uses clear, collaborative conversations to build a plan that fits each person's life. She helps with work-related anxiety, job-seeking motivation, and the stress that comes from caring for someone with illness or disability.
How Norma works
She also supports people adjusting after accidents or new disabilities. Her approach combines techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy, among other methods. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, make values-based choices, and steer sessions at a pace that feels right for them.
Sessions often focus on small, usable steps rather than lengthy theory. Norma has particular experience with compassion fatigue and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, grief, and addiction concerns. She also works with issues such as intimacy, communication problems, body image, and major life changes.
Conversations can include practical tools for sleeping, anger management, and coping with career challenges. Norma aims to create respectful and sensitive sessions. She will tailor the dialogue and goals to each person’s needs and preferences.
If Spanish is preferred, she can conduct sessions in Spanish to make the process easier.
Norma lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Norma works with
The areas below are the ones Norma 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
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, life changes, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. It works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, using empathy and active listening so the person can find their own solutions; this approach supports confidence and self-esteem building.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Norma will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions are useful for lower data use or shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging can fit into a busy day and let someone share between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help people keep therapy consistent.
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