DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale
Insightful support for parenting and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker who offers steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and parenting challenges. She has 30 years of practice and focuses on practical steps that help clients feel steadier in day-to-day life. Her work is rooted in listening, clear goals, and helping people notice what matters to them.
DeAnna uses a blend of therapies to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to address patterns of thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment approaches to help people clarify values and take workable steps toward them. Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions aim to teach skills people can use between appointments.
DeAnna encourages small changes that build into larger improvements over time. She has worked broadly with issues such as addictions, relationship and family matters, sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar conditions, and attention-related challenges. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence and natural disasters.
DeAnna holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, Oklahoma LCSW 22096 and Arkansas LCSW 1241-C, and practices from Arkansas. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what they value and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes by focusing on action over perfection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods that match those needs and adjust over time based on what works.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, caregiving, or health challenges. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when schedules allow. Phone, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins and options for people who need different ways to communicate. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while using approaches such as ACT, CBT, and DBT in practical, everyday ways.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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