Deidre McLeod , LPC, LCMHC
Somatic-focused counselor blending body and talk work
About Deidre
Deidre McLeod is a licensed counselor who centers somatic awareness in her work. She combines body-focused practices with talk therapy to help people manage anxiety, stress, and trauma symptoms. Deidre holds LPC and LCMHC credentials and brings 15 years of clinical experience in Florida to each session.
She helps people who are coping with depression, grief, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and major life changes. Relationship and intimacy concerns are also common topics, along with parenting strains and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her approach attends to both physical sensations and emotional patterns during sessions. In practice she uses client-centered skills to build a respectful, listening space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) techniques help with emotional regulation and improving connection in close relationships. Sessions may include guided grounding, breath and movement awareness, and coordinated talk to help people feel safer in their bodies. Deidre adapts plans to each person rather than applying a fixed method.
She aims for clear, practical steps and steady progress. Her professional licenses are LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, listed for South Carolina and North Carolina as SC LPC 5744 and NC LCMHC 17436, and she practices in Florida. Deidre offers sessions in English and works with clients through several online formats.
How somatic and skills-based methods work online
Somatic Therapy emphasizes awareness of body sensations and how they relate to emotions and stress. Online sessions can guide simple grounding, breath awareness, and gentle movement cues while talking through what people notice in their bodies to reduce overwhelm and increase regulation.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, empathic space. The therapist listens closely and reflects what is said to help people feel heard and understood, which supports clearer thinking and next steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replace them with practical strategies. CBT tools can be taught in sessions and practiced between meetings to manage anxiety, depression, and mood shifts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adapt techniques over time. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to use and adjust them based on progress.
Online formats offer flexibility and access to consistent care. Video calls allow visual and somatic cues to be noticed, phone sessions suit those on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins and between-session work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still practicing body-aware and skills-based techniques.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English