Dea Dean, Lpc, Lmft

Dea Dean, owner of the counseling private practice, Dea Dean Lpc, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor, in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Dea sees a full-time caseload of clients, primarily working with issues of codependency, identity, self-esteem, shame, and how core issues can manifest into depression, anxiety, and trauma and effect relationships, marriages and families. Dea’s passion is helping clients identify barriers for connection and strengthen client’s ability to clearly communicate needs, desires, emotions and beliefs with confidence and compassion. Dea recently started “Counseling Collective,” which leases turn key office space, designed uniquely for the needs of mental health practitioners who desire to enjoy the financial benefits of running their own business as well as the relational benefits of working in professional community. Dea believes empowering other professionals to work for themselves will ensure longevity in their career, reduce burnout, and create collaboration rather than competition in their local professional community. She graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary with a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy Counseling, is a credentialed facilitator of Prepare/Enrich Premarital Counseling Curriculum, And has competed levels 1 and 2 of training from The Gottman Institute, run by forerunners John and Julie Gottman, developing greater skill with research-based assessments and interventions, with couples. Dea’s insight, advice and perspective has been featured in articles for Oprah Magazine, Bustle, Considerable and Optimal Living Daily.