Deanna Rasnic, LPC

Deanna Rasnic brings decades of counseling experience to individuals, couples, and families facing a wide range of life challenges. She views counseling as a calling and works with clients to explore how past experiences affect present functioning, using practical strategies to promote healing and forward movement. Deanna emphasizes helping people gain insight into themselves and others, guiding them through grief, relationship struggles, parenting issues, mood concerns, addiction, trauma, and the many transitions that life brings.

Her approach blends empathy with direct, honest feedback and concrete recommendations. Deanna helps clients identify underlying patterns, set realistic goals, and take steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She frequently applies cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients process past hurts, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and build skills that prevent previous problems from limiting future progress.

Deanna has more than 20 years as a counselor, including over a decade in private practice offering individual, marital, adolescent, and family counseling, and extensive agency work. She has significant experience with adoption work, supporting birth parents, adoptive couples, and adopted children before and after placement. Her licensure includes Licensed Professional Counselor issued by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors in 1999 - LPC denotes Licensed Professional Counselor, a credential indicating advanced training and state licensure. She also holds LPC Supervisor status and is a Licensed Child Placing Administrator. Deanna earned master's degrees in Marriage and Family Counseling and Religious Education, plus a bachelor's degree in Psychology, and she brings that background to practical, compassionate care.

Integrating CBT and Practical Counseling Online

Deanna Rasnic uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical skills to change behaviors and emotional responses. CBT involves working on specific thoughts and actions that contribute to anxiety, depression, grief responses, and relationship problems, often through targeted exercises and collaborative problem solving.

Alongside CBT, her counseling emphasizes clear, actionable guidance and exploration of how past experiences affect present relationships and coping. She works collaboratively with clients to determine which techniques and focus areas best match their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the approach over time as progress is made.

Online therapy with Deanna offers the same therapeutic focus as in-person work while providing greater flexibility. Clients can meet by video call, talk by phone, or use live chat and text-based messaging to fit sessions into busy schedules or to access care from different locations. These options make it easier to maintain consistency, address issues as they arise, and keep momentum in the therapeutic process with licensed professionals guiding each step.