DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale, LCSW
Licensed in Arkansas · 30 years in practice
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship challenges.
License and registration
- LCSW, Arkansas
- 1241-C · expires November 2026
- LCSW, Oklahoma
- 22096 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1710916911 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
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About DeAnna
DeAnna Vaughan-Vitale is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. She works with adults who are coping with life changes, addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and issues like ADHD or bipolar mood shifts.
Her tone is steady and practical, aimed at people who want clear steps and honest support. DeAnna uses a mix of therapy styles to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills, naming unhelpful patterns, and practicing small changes that add up. She helps clients sort priorities and find ways to manage daily pressure without getting overwhelmed. Her background spans many areas that often overlap in people’s lives - caregiver stress, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care histories, chronic illness, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.
The work often includes grief, guilt, and rebuilding after loss or sudden change. She pays attention to how life context shapes emotional responses. DeAnna aims to create a collaborative space where goals are practical and measurable.
She leans on approaches that encourage values-based action and clearer thinking. Conversations are direct but respectful, and homework or skills practice is offered when it will help progress. She holds an LCSW, licensed in Arkansas and Oklahoma, and has spent decades in clinical settings and therapeutic work.
People come to her wanting steady guidance, better coping tools, and a plan for moving forward one step at a time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything DeAnna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches DeAnna names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when emotions are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills work.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals and try methods that fit a person’s needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat offers a real-time but lower-pressure option, and text messaging works well for ongoing brief support and reminders. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, relationship and family issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting challenges, ADHD, bipolar, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear goals, skills practice, and real-life problem solving delivered in a calm, respectful manner.
How much experience does she have?
She brings thirty years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life concerns across different settings.
Where is she licensed and located?
She holds an LCSW and is licensed in Oklahoma and Arkansas, with practice tied to Arkansas as her location.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
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