Deanna Eshler, LPCC - Therapist in Ohio

About Deanna

Deanna Eshler is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with 20 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, and behavioral challenges. Parents can expect clear, practical conversations and a focus on what helps children and families feel safer and more connected.

Her work often centers on children, teens, and the adults who care for them. She brings long experience in foster care and adoption settings, school-based work, community mental health, and intensive home-based family counseling.

Background and approach

That background shaped how she responds to stress, trauma, and relationship strains in family life. Deanna uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. She draws on attachment-based ideas to repair connection, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, and narrative and mindfulness tools to help people make sense of their experience.

Sessions are tailored to the child or family’s needs rather than a single method. She pays particular attention to issues common in families: abandonment or attachment concerns, communication breakdowns, isolation or loneliness, and the effects of trauma and post-traumatic stress. She also offers coaching-style support for parenting and life transitions.

Her style is respectful and straightforward. She works with caregivers to identify strengths, set clear goals, and try small changes that can make daily life easier. The emphasis is on practical steps and steady support as families move through change.

Therapeutic approaches and online options for families

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on strengthening bonds between children and caregivers. It looks at patterns of connection and aims to rebuild trust and emotional safety, which can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and family conflict.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, addresses thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or depression active. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills helpful for stress, school anxiety, and anger.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and respond to emotions in ways that improve relationships. It can be useful when communication is stuck or when family members need help reconnecting after trauma or conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with families about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose and adjust methods so the plan fits the child or family rather than forcing one technique.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t an option, and live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These options make it easier for parents and caregivers to fit sessions into busy routines and to keep continuity of care even when life is hectic.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of family concerns are addressed?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, relationship and communication problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and post-traumatic stress.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is individualized and practical. She focuses on identifying strengths, setting goals, and using clear techniques that fit each family’s needs.

What is her professional background?

She has 20 years of experience working in community mental health centers, foster and adoption agencies, schools, and in intensive home-based family counseling.

What are her credentials and where is she licensed?

She is an LPCC with license details OH LPCC E.0007856-SUPV and practices in Ohio.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can she work with clients outside the United States?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different family schedules and needs.

How are costs and getting started handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience: 20 years
Licensed: Ohio
Languages: English

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