Deanna Rasnic , LPC

Deanna Rasnic brings nearly three decades of professional counseling experience to her work, approaching therapy as a calling and a deeply held passion. She partners with individuals, couples, adolescents, and families who are navigating difficult seasons - offering empathy, direct insight, and practical strategies to help them move forward. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, she helps clients identify how past hurts influence present patterns, learn new ways of thinking, and develop actionable steps to foster healing and growth.

Her background includes more than a decade in private practice and many years working in agency settings, with particular experience in adoption work - supporting birth parents, adoptive couples, and adopted children before and after placement. She has provided counseling across a wide range of concerns, including marriage and divorce, blended family and co-parenting challenges, parenting at different life stages, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, addictions, boundary-setting, and the long-term effects of earlier wounds.

Deanna is described by colleagues as empathetic yet direct, nonjudgmental, and practical in her recommendations. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - a licensed mental health professional - and she holds credentials as an LPC Supervisor, authorized to supervise other counselors, and as a Licensed Child Placing Administrator, with specialized knowledge of adoption practices. She earned two Master of Arts degrees - one in Marriage and Family Counseling and one in Religious Education - and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Deanna primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a skills-focused approach that helps people recognize unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more adaptive thinking and behaviors. CBT is effective for issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day coping challenges because it combines practical exercises with clearer understanding of how thoughts affect emotions and actions.

She also emphasizes insight-oriented work that explores how past experiences affect present relationships and functioning, helping clients process earlier hurts so those patterns no longer limit current choices or relationships. This approach can be especially helpful for clients dealing with attachment issues, grief, or family-of-origin concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Deanna works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and needs, and she tailors her methods to fit each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility for people with busy schedules or geographic constraints. Clients can connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to maintain continuity of care and integrate therapeutic work into everyday life while working with licensed professionals and therapists.