Deanna Eshler, LPCC

Deanna Eshler is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She writes care plans that match each person's needs and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she emphasizes strengths while addressing challenges like anger, low self-esteem, or life changes.

Deanna uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas to make sense of patterns that keep problems going. She helps people name unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that lead to calmer days. Mindfulness and narrative elements are also woven into sessions to help people notice where emotions come from and reshape the stories they tell about themselves.

Her background includes many years in community mental health, foster and adoption services, school settings, and intensive home-based counseling. That work brought a lot of experience with trauma, adoption and foster care issues, and struggles around attachment and family communication. Deanna draws on that history when clients bring related concerns.

In sessions she aims to be straightforward and respectful. She partners with people to set clear goals and tracks progress along the way. The focus is on practical tools, honest conversation, and building skills that last.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Deanna commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT-style work focuses on small, practical changes like testing assumptions and building new routines that reduce anxiety and improve mood.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in close connections. This approach helps people notice repeated patterns in relationships and practice new ways of communicating and relating.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Deanna talks with each person about their goals and preferences and then blends methods to suit the situation. That collaborative process helps find the best fit over time rather than assuming one single method will work.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people meet face-to-face when they prefer visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone wants written reflection between live sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent progress.