Deanna is both a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Counselor. She holds a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy along with certificates in Trauma Counseling and Spirituality and Counseling from Richmont Graduate University. She has completed the extensive 3 year training process to be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner,  the Externship and Core Skills trainings in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, and is an Internal Family Systems Informed therapist. She often works with couples where one or both partners have experienced trauma. She has done extended supervision in Internal Family Systems and is trained in EMDR. Deanna serves as Adjunct Faculty at Richmont Graduate University and is the Director for Intern Experience at the Richmont Trauma Center. Before coming to RTC, she worked at a psychiatric hospital where she led education and process groups on trauma recovery, emotional/relational health skills, and offered family therapy. 

   In addition to her counseling work, she is credentialed as an Approved Clinical Supervisor and and AAFMT Approved Supervisor. She offers clinical supervision to counseling students and counselors in their education and licensure journey as both LPCs and LMFTs. It is a passion of hers to help train future and developing clinicians to be skilled, trauma-informed therapists who are able to help alleviate suffering in the world. Deanna is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, The Licensed Professional Counselors of Georgia, and The Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. 

• Somatic Experiencing is a gentle yet powerful body-based method for facilitating the healing of trauma's impact on the body and nervous system. It is based on the work of Dr. Peter Levine.
• Emotion Focused Therapy, based on the work of Dr. Sue Johnson, is the gold standard in couples therapy. EFT uses attachment science to work with people's emotional and relational distress, helping couples address the difficult things in their hearts and relationship in a way that brings deep personal and relational healing, and greater connection with one another.
• Internal Family Systems is an evidence based, transformative, and non-judgmental model of therapy that focuses on healing the parts of self that are injured and disrupted as a result of trauma. It is gentle, non-judgmental, and powerfully effective in bringing relief to many trauma symptoms, and many coping strategies that have outlived their usefulness. It is based on the work of Dr. Richard Schwartz.