Deanna Williams, LCSW, LICSW

Licensed in Alabama · 8 years in practice

Deanna Williams is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and addiction.

License and registration

LICSW, Alabama: 4722C · expires April 2027
LCSW, Tennessee: 7789 · expires September 2027
LISW, South Carolina: 15181 · expires December 2026
LCSW, Florida: SW20088 · expires March 2027
LCSW, Louisiana: 17764 · expires August 2026
NPI: 1164160123 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 8
Languages: English

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About Deanna

Deanna Williams is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and addiction. She brings eight years of experience to sessions and aims to build a warm, practical working relationship. Deanna works with adults facing life transitions and chronic health challenges, and she also supports people coping with caregiver strain and postpartum adjustment.

She uses straightforward conversation to help clients name problems and find workable steps forward.

Background and approach

Sessions often include skill-building for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing harmful coping behaviors. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Deanna draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities.

She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and replace it with more helpful patterns. Motivational interviewing helps when change feels overwhelming or uncertain. Her work attends to the practical realities of life.

That can mean planning for caregiving responsibilities, addressing isolation, or adjusting to life after cancer or loss. Deanna pays attention to how co-occurring challenges like substance use and mood disorders interact and impact daily functioning. People meet her for a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through hard things and try new strategies.

She is licensed in Tennessee as an LCSW and in Alabama as an LICSW and practices from Alabama. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what will help in everyday life.

Focus areas and approaches

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Approaches Deanna names

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Therapeutic approaches and online care

Deanna commonly uses client-centered methods to keep conversation focused on each person’s goals. This approach prioritizes listening, empathetic reflection, and collaborative problem solving to help clients feel heard and to guide practical next steps.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems stuck. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find their own reasons for change and to build small, realistic steps forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will choose or adapt methods so sessions feel useful and manageable.

Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief updates, skill practice, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options let clients fit therapy into busy lives while continuing consistent care.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Deanna help with?

She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, bipolar symptoms, trauma and related issues like low self-esteem and anger.

What is her approach to therapy?

Her style is practical and collaborative, using client-centered conversation alongside CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing to build skills and resolve problems.

What is her background and experience?

Deanna has eight years of clinical experience working with adults managing life transitions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, postpartum concerns, and co-occurring substance use.

Where is she licensed and located?

She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Alabama. The credentials listed are TN LCSW and AL LICSW as provided.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English, and she does not accept international clients at this time.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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