Deanna Eshler, LPCC
Understanding parenting challenges and family stress
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Deanna
Deanna Eshler is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience helping people navigate parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strains. She focuses on real-life problems like depression, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at parents who need clear tools and steady guidance.
Deanna adapts her work to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at family patterns and bonds. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and narrative methods to help people reframe difficult stories from the past. Her background includes community mental health centers, a foster and adoption agency, school settings, and intensive home-based counseling with at-risk youth.
That range gave her long experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and post-traumatic stress. She also spent many years supporting parents through the stress that comes with raising children. In sessions she focuses on practical steps parents can try between meetings, along with emotion-focused work when relationships feel strained.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping people identify strengths and needs. The goal is to support and empower parents as they make changes that help the whole family. Deanna offers sessions in English and works from Ohio as an LPCC.
She tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation, helping them move toward clearer communication and more manageable day-to-day routines.
What Deanna works with
Everything Deanna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Deanna helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
Approaches Deanna lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support for parents
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current family patterns and helps people understand relationship reactions. It can be useful when attachment issues, adoption or foster care history, or family problems influence parenting and connection.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers concrete exercises and homework that help reduce anxiety, manage anger, and improve daily routines.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on recognizing and naming emotions in the moment to improve closeness and repair ruptures in relationships. It can help when communication problems and emotional distance are causing repeated conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and personal preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy family schedule.
Questions people ask about Deanna
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and individualized. She focuses on clear steps people can try, combined with attention to emotions and family patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional experience working in community mental health, foster and adoption services, school settings, and intensive home-based counseling.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LPCC credential and practices in Ohio as an Ohio LPCC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.
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