Deana Steele, LPC

Deana Steele is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 21 years of clinical experience. She supports people through complex emotional challenges with a focus on depression, anxiety, stress, family dynamics, and self-esteem. Her practice includes work with children, teens, young adults, and adults facing mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive patterns, personality-related challenges including Borderline features, and the effects of traumatic brain injury.

Her approach is compassionate and individualized, aiming to identify underlying patterns that affect daily functioning and relationships. Drawing on evidence-based therapeutic techniques, she helps clients develop practical strategies to manage symptoms, build resilience, and strengthen family and parenting skills. Deana emphasizes a collaborative process that honors each personâs unique history and goals while offering structured support to foster personal growth.

Whether addressing control issues, family conflicts, self-esteem concerns, or the impacts of trauma and brain injury, Deana focuses on empowering clients to make meaningful change. She creates a supportive environment where exploration, skill-building, and deeper understanding come together to promote emotional well-being and healthier relationships.

Evidence-Based Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Deana Steele uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on recognizing and changing unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior. These approaches help clients develop clearer perspectives on worries, intrusive thoughts, and repetitive behaviors, and support practical steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

She also employs skills-oriented strategies that teach tools for managing stress, anxiety, and mood symptoms. These techniques emphasize coping skills, emotional regulation, and problem-solving to support stability during challenging periods. In addition, Deana integrates family-focused work to address parenting concerns and relational patterns, helping family members communicate more effectively and navigate conflicts together.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Deana partners with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and tailors interventions accordingly, adjusting methods as progress unfolds and circumstances change.

Online therapy with Deana is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access care from home, balance therapy with daily responsibilities, and maintain continuity of support when in-person visits are not practical.