Deanna Dillard

Deanna Dillard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anger, stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship concerns. Deanna aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.

She creates a space where clients can talk about hard feelings without feeling judged. Sessions emphasize listening, practical skills, and steady support. Deanna works with people facing grief, trauma, intimacy difficulties, sleep and eating concerns, and self-esteem struggles.

Her background includes work with people dealing with bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She also supports those navigating gender dysphoria, multicultural issues, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Veterans and people connected to the armed forces are among the additional focus areas she lists.

Deanna draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns. Elements of Existential Therapy help explore meaning and choices, and the Gottman Method informs her approach to relationship conversations.

People who reach out can expect straightforward guidance, encouragement, and practical tools to try between sessions. The work is collaborative: goals are set together and adjusted as progress happens. Prospective clients who want to begin can use the Start Therapy process on the site to match and schedule.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Deanna uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person's experience and pace; this approach emphasizes empathetic listening and reflecting what matters most to the client. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and choices.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skill-oriented, often involving exercises or small experiments between sessions to reduce anger, anxiety, or depressive patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose and adapt methods based on needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path upfront.

If you are interested in online sessions, confirm the available formats before booking since the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when that suits your schedule. It also lets some people use different communication styles, such as more verbal focus or worksheet-based work, which can help when addressing anger, relationship skills, or coping strategies.