About Deveta
Deveta Gelispie is an LCSW licensed in Illinois who brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice. She centers her work on building connection through empathy and attentive listening while tailoring interventions to each person's concerns.
Background and approach
Her background includes trauma-informed care and evidence-based strategies aimed at improving mental health and interpersonal functioning. Drawing on approaches such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and client-centered principles, she supports people facing relationship struggles, mood difficulties, life transitions, addictive behaviors, and grief.
Additional areas of focus include attachment and commitment issues, multicultural concerns, personality-related challenges, and problems related to self-esteem, career, and parenting. Deveta frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps clients explore their values, goals, and practical next steps toward change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental environment where the client’s perspective leads the work; this approach helps people explore values, build self-understanding, and make choices that align with their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers structured tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and can be especially useful for depression, anxiety, sleep concerns, and mood regulation. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and goal-oriented interventions to create measurable progress in areas like relationships, career decisions, and coping with life changes.Determining the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to assess needs, preferences, and treatment goals, then adapt methods over time so the plan stays aligned with what helps most. This collaborative stance makes room for adjustment as progress unfolds.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexible ways to fit therapy into a busy life. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations while allowing therapists to use the same therapeutic tools and interventions effectively in remote sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English