Raina Deer, LPC

Raina Deer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a decade of experience in counseling and higher education. She focuses on helping people find clearer thinking and steadier habits when life feels overwhelming. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, career questions, depression, and major life changes.

Her work is practical and warm. Sessions center on small, doable steps that change daily routines and thought patterns. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking, practice new responses, and rebuild trust in themselves and others.

Raina pays attention to how attachment and past losses shape current reactions. She helps people who struggle with abandonment, commitment or control issues, and those coping after separation or infidelity. Communication problems and caregiving stress are common topics she addresses with clear tools and pacing that fit real life.

She also addresses concerns like obsessive thoughts, compulsions, money stress, and questions about life purpose or midlife transition. When helpful, faith-based beliefs can be included in sessions at the client’s request. The goal is steady progress through focused, manageable work.

Raina offers a collaborative style that asks what matters most to each person. She encourages practical experiments between sessions and helps build healthier habits over time.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online work

Raina lists evidence-based therapeutic techniques as the foundation of her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help people notice unhelpful thoughts, test new beliefs, and practice small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Solution-Focused work narrows the focus to concrete goals and quick experiments that build momentum and clearer habits.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying methods, tracking what helps, and adjusting over time rather than committing to one path from the start.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people use approaches like CBT homework or brief skills practice between meetings, helping new habits take hold in daily life.