Deonna Crabtree
Compassionate, practical counseling for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Deonna
Deonna Crabtree is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience. She uses a warm, collaborative style that helps people feel safe to talk about hard things. She keeps sessions relaxed and practical so parents can fit therapy into busy lives.
She focuses on family and parenting concerns among many other issues. Deonna helps with stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders like bipolar, and attention difficulties. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, anger, intimate relationship problems, and life changes.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and by practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used when people want short-term direction or help finding internal motivation.
Deonna has worked in mental health and higher education for two decades and brings that experience into sessions. She tailors each plan to the person in front of her instead of using a one-size-fits-all method. Parents appreciate straightforward strategies they can try between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Deonna practices in Missouri as an LPC, license number MO LPC 2014007454, and structures therapy so it fits real life.
Online approaches that meet parents where they are
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting partnership. The therapist follows the clients lead, reflects concerns, and helps people name what matters most. This approach supports parenting issues by prioritizing what the family wants to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and coping with daily stressors.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to strengthen motivation for tasks like addressing addiction or improving parenting routines.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what the client needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face while phone, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, and caregiving schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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