Deidre McLeod
Compassionate trauma-informed counseling for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Deidre
Deidre McLeod is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical, trauma-informed support. She uses clear, straightforward talk in sessions to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and parenting concerns. Deidre holds the LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credentials and practices from Florida.
She brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work and aims to make therapy feel accessible and respectful. Her style is warm and interactive.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin with short, focused conversation about immediate concerns. From there she and the client shape goals and try simple skills that can be used between meetings. She emphasizes listening first and tailoring the plan to each person’s needs.
Deidre draws on several approaches in session. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, supplies practical skills to manage strong emotions. She also integrates emotionally-focused and Jungian ideas when those perspectives help deepen understanding of patterns. That means exploring feelings in the moment and looking at life themes that influence coping.
Deidre pays attention to how background, relationships, and identity shape struggles like intimacy issues, family strain, and boundary problems. Therapy is treated as a collaborative process. Deidre works with each person to try approaches that fit their preferences and goals.
She explains options plainly and checks in so the plan can shift as needed.
Online approaches that match your needs
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist creates space for clients to say what matters and helps them set their own goals. This approach works well when people need a steady, respectful place to talk through parenting stress, relationship strain, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related coping, and improving daily routines.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It offers concrete strategies for distress tolerance and emotional regulation that can help with anger, relationship conflicts, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to each person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy family schedules and continue care from home. The variety of formats also helps when someone prefers brief check-ins, skills practice in writing, or longer face-to-face video conversations.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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