- Calm and direct style
- Skills focused
- Mindfulness included
About Deena
Deena Ott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and challenges with self esteem. Her approach is calm and direct, and she focuses on meeting each person where they are.
Deena uses practical skills from methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She blends those with mindfulness and attachment-informed ideas to help people cope with day-to-day life and painful experiences. Sessions move at the client’s pace, and she offers guidance when people want direction or prompts.
Deena often supports people struggling with body image, eating-related issues, and the emotional fallout from family problems or separation. She also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, control issues, and forgiveness work. Her background includes work across multiple states and years helping people navigate big life changes.
In sessions she emphasizes concrete coping tools, breathing and grounding practices, and skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that influence how people cope with loss and abandonment. Conversations focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps they can try between meetings.
The first meeting is a straightforward conversation to clarify goals and see if the fit feels right. She asks about priorities and what the person hopes to get from therapy. From there she and the client shape a practical plan to build coping skills and emotional resilience.
Deena uses practical skills from methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She blends those with mindfulness and attachment-informed ideas to help people cope with day-to-day life and painful experiences. Sessions move at the client’s pace, and she offers guidance when people want direction or prompts.
Deena often supports people struggling with body image, eating-related issues, and the emotional fallout from family problems or separation. She also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, control issues, and forgiveness work. Her background includes work across multiple states and years helping people navigate big life changes.
In sessions she emphasizes concrete coping tools, breathing and grounding practices, and skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that influence how people cope with loss and abandonment. Conversations focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps they can try between meetings.
The first meeting is a straightforward conversation to clarify goals and see if the fit feels right. She asks about priorities and what the person hopes to get from therapy. From there she and the client shape a practical plan to build coping skills and emotional resilience.