Works with
How Aleta works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Aleta
Aleta (Deonne) O'Quinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience based in Georgia. She focuses on helping people cope with stressful life changes, manage anxiety and depression, and work through grief and anger. Aleta uses a warm, practical style that aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first session.
Clients can expect short-term goals alongside deeper work. She helps people build stronger self-esteem and improve communication.
Background and approach
Practical coping skills are paired with chances to process painful experiences in a paced way. Aleta draws on client-centered methods to keep the person's needs front and center. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge negative thinking patterns and dialectical behavior strategies to manage intense emotions.
Mindfulness skills and emotion-focused ideas are added when they fit the client's goals. Her work often addresses relationship strain, workplace stress, addictions, and parenting challenges. She also supports people facing health-related stress, caregiving burdens, and life transitions like adoption, aging, or tackling past attachment wounds.
Sessions aim to help people leave therapy with clearer coping plans. Aleta encourages practical steps people can use day to day. The focus is on what helps someone feel more in control and more connected to their values.
What Aleta works with
Everything Aleta lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Aleta's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Aleta lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Aleta's Approaches Work Online
Aleta commonly uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on the person's own goals and experiences. This approach emphasizes listening, validation, and collaboration so people shape the pace and direction of their work.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, anger, and stress by teaching practical ways to reframe unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit those priorities, and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize skills training, emotional processing, or both.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video allows face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone can be a simpler way to check in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varying schedules.
Questions people ask about Aleta
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and addictions, plus relationship and parenting issues. Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic illness concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and body image.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and practical, blending short-term skills with deeper emotional work. Sessions often include skill-building, reflective conversation, and step-by-step coping plans.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of experience working as a therapist. That background covers a range of concerns from mood disorders to caregiving stress and trauma recovery.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. The LPC credential is shown as GA LPC.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Appointments are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. This gives several ways to check in depending on schedule and communication preference.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing depends on those factors.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability. This helps match needs to the best format and timing.