Deanna Revels, LPCC

Deanna Revels is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that shape how people feel. She works with adults who are trying to manage anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, trauma reactions, or the effects of dissociation and neurodevelopmental challenges. Her style aims to make thinking patterns and daily routines easier to notice and change. She uses narrative therapy to help people tell and reshape the stories they live by. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, often called EMDR, is part of her work for processing traumatic memories. Exposure and response prevention, or ERP, is used for obsessive-compulsive challenges. Deanna has six years of professional experience since completing graduate school. She earned a Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and an Educational Specialist in Counseling from Kent State University in 2020. She holds the Ohio LPCC credential. Her approach is collaborative and concrete. Sessions focus on what is happening now and workable steps to try between meetings. She also helps people with relationship patterns, feelings of abandonment, body image concerns, and finding a sense of purpose. People can expect direct conversations about thoughts, habits, and everyday choices. Deanna supports LGBT concerns and addresses co-morbid conditions like mood disorders and communication problems. Sessions aim to make real-life routines feel more manageable and less driven by unhelpful thought patterns.

How practical treatment and online options work together

Deanna commonly uses narrative therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. This approach looks at how past events and current routines shape a person’s sense of self, and then identifies small shifts in thinking and behavior that make daily life feel different. She also uses EMDR, a method for easing the emotional charge of traumatic memories by working through them in focused sessions. For obsessive thoughts and compulsions she uses exposure and response prevention, which involves gradual, supported practice in facing feared situations without doing rituals. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences together and adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize story work, trauma processing, or exposure-based practice for any given concern. Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and enabling check-ins from work or home. It can also allow shorter or more frequent visits when needed, and offer different ways to work if someone prefers not to be on camera. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to an online setting so progress continues between meetings.