Deanna Dillard

Deanna Dillard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people face stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and the challenges that come with relationships and family life. She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through hard feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps - learning to manage anger, reduce anxiety, or cope with addictions. Deanna also supports people working through grief, intimacy concerns, and career stress.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. That means listening carefully and tailoring each session to what the client needs right now. She draws on techniques from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful patterns.

Deanna also uses existential ideas to help people think about meaning, values, and choices. For relationship concerns she incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to address communication and conflict patterns.

She has additional focus areas that include ADHD, gender dysphoria, hoarding, infidelity, intellectual disability, and multicultural concerns. These are topics she has worked with across her career and can bring into sessions when relevant.

People who come to her can expect direct listening, straightforward feedback, and collaborative goal-setting. She encourages small, doable changes and celebrates progress along the way.

How therapy approaches inform online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting each person where they are. It helps people feel heard and build goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. The Gottman Method concentrates on communication and conflict skills useful for relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and then use one or more methods that fit. That process is collaborative - clients and the therapist decide together what feels most useful.

Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - it can reduce travel time, allow a quicker check-in during a break, or make scheduling across time zones simpler for international clients. Different approaches can be adapted to remote sessions so practical skills, reflective conversation, and relationship work continue effectively even when meeting at a distance.