Deonna Crabtree

Deonna Crabtree is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience in mental health and higher education. She offers a calm, collaborative approach that helps people who feel overwhelmed, isolated, or stuck. Deonna aims to make beginning therapy less intimidating and more like a conversation over coffee.

Her work focuses on everyday struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, mood disorders including bipolar disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and problems with self-esteem or compulsive behaviors. Isolation and loneliness are among the issues she addresses when they come up in a person’s life.

Sessions are tailored to the individual. Deonna mixes client-centered listening with practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. She and the client shape goals together and revisit them as needs change.

Her style is relaxed and straightforward. Conversations are paced to each person’s comfort, with room for practical coping skills and problem-solving. She encourages people to bring what matters most to them and to try small, manageable steps between sessions.

Deonna has experience with a wide age range of clients and with survivors of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She welcomes honest conversation about what’s going on now, then helps people move toward clearer coping and next steps.

Approaches used in online therapy and why they help

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with empathy and supporting people to find their own answers; it helps when someone needs a calm space to make sense of loneliness, grief, or relationship worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, panic, and mood management. Motivational interviewing helps people identify their own motivation for change and move through ambivalence, which is often helpful with addiction, behavior change, or making big life choices.

Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaboration guides whether more listening, skills practice, or motivational work becomes the main focus.

Confirm session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific delivery methods. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing flexible scheduling, and letting someone join from a quieter place or during a shorter break. Some people find phone sessions require less bandwidth and feel simpler, while others prefer face-to-face conversation by video for nonverbal cues. The therapist will discuss options so sessions can fit practical daily needs.