About Deanna
Deanna Gwynne is a counsellor practising in Australia with three years of direct one-on-one experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, parenting and caring pressures, trauma and abuse, and the everyday strain of life changes. Deanna also supports those managing attention and concentration challenges and people exploring self-esteem and career concerns.
Her approach is grounded in a belief that each person knows their story best. She focuses on listening first and helping clients notice practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Deanna aims to create calm in conversations and to help people build small, doable routines that reduce overwhelm. Deanna blends body-aware work with talking therapies. She uses somatic techniques alongside client-centred and cognitive behavioural strategies so people can connect bodily cues with thoughts and actions.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added tools she calls on to support clearer decision making and steady pacing through change. Sessions move at a person’s pace and are shaped by real-life needs. Deanna helps people practise skills in session and then adapt them for home, work or parenting situations.
The focus is practical - clearer communication, better routines, and fewer days dominated by worry. She holds PACFA as a credential and works with clients through online formats. Deanna encourages anyone feeling stuck to consider a conversation about what they want to change, and to look at manageable first steps toward that aim.
Therapies you can use online with Deanna
Deanna uses somatic work to help people notice how their body holds stress and anxiety. This approach links physical sensations to feelings and can be helpful when worry shows up as tension, sleeplessness or restlessness.She also uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. That style suits people who want a paced conversation and time to make sense of their experiences.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is another common tool in her sessions. CBT looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and improve routines.
Deanna treats finding the right mix of approaches as a joint process. She will discuss goals, preferences and how different methods feel in practice, then shape sessions together so they fit the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions suit quieter setups, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to include therapy around parenting, work and daily life while still working on skills and insights.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English