About Cletus
Cletus Deller is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience. He draws on somatic approaches alongside practical therapies to help people make concrete changes in their daily lives. He communicates plainly and focuses on what can be done now to reduce stress, anxiety, addiction problems, and trauma-related symptoms.
Before counseling, he worked as a teacher and later completed graduate studies in psychology and counseling. He also holds a Master of Business Administration.
Background and approach
These roles shaped a direct, results-oriented style that many people find clear and action-focused. In sessions he blends body-focused somatic work with evidence-based talk therapies like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He aims to help clients notice how the body holds stress and to use simple steps that change thoughts, habits, and physical responses.
His background includes long-term clinical experience treating trauma, anxiety, addiction, grief, anger, and relationship harm. He also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and self-esteem issues. The LMHC credential indicates state licensure to provide mental health counseling in Florida.
Cletus describes a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach and is willing to incorporate a client’s spiritual perspective when requested. Sessions may include practical skill-building, emotion regulation tools, and body-centered exercises aimed at lowering reactivity and improving daily functioning.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, gentle grounding exercises, and noticing body sensations while talking about difficult memories. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, values-based steps even when feelings are uncomfortable. It can help with anxiety, depression, and addiction by shifting what you do next rather than trying to eliminate every feeling.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether somatic tools, ACT, or cognitive techniques fit best based on goals and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online formats offer flexible ways to use these methods. Video calls allow real-time guidance through grounding and somatic exercises. Phone sessions work well for coaching and behavioral steps. Live chat or text-based messaging can reinforce skills between sessions and provide short check-ins. These options make therapy easier to fit into a busy life while still focusing on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English