Deanna Revels

Deanna Revels is an Ohio LPCC with six years of experience working with adults. She focuses on life purpose and LGBT concerns, along with mood disorders, anxiety, OCD, trauma-related conditions, and neurodevelopmental differences. Her work centers on practical steps clients can try between sessions.

Deanna writes that she uses narrative therapy to help people reframe roles and stories that hold them back. She includes EMDR for trauma work and exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Those methods shape how she structures sessions and homework.

In sessions she helps people name patterns such as abandonment, attachment, control issues, or dissociation. Conversations often cover communication problems, body image, and feelings of isolation. She also addresses separation or divorce, domestic violence impacts, and guilt or shame when they affect current choices.

Deanna often supports clients who are questioning what comes next in work or life. She aims to break big problems into small, manageable steps. That can mean short behavioral experiments, focused exposure practice, or working to change the story someone tells about themselves.

Her background includes a master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and an Educational Specialist in Counseling from Kent State University, earned in 2020. She sees adults in Ohio and conducts sessions in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions

Deanna reports using narrative therapy, EMDR, and exposure and response prevention. Narrative therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and looks for small changes in how those stories are told. That approach can help when someone feels stuck after a life change or questions what matters next.

EMDR is a trauma-focused method used to process disturbing memories and reduce their emotional hold. Exposure and response prevention is a behavior-based approach that guides gradual, controlled practice facing feared situations or thoughts while reducing compulsive responses. Both techniques are often used when trauma or OCD symptoms are part of what keeps someone from moving forward.

Finding which approach fits is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which techniques to try first. Sessions are collaborative and may combine methods as needs evolve.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow focused check-ins between other commitments. Some techniques may need longer or more structured sessions, while others can be practiced as short exercises during the week.