Deanna Lababidi, LAPC

Deanna is an associate professional counselor in Georgia and a nationally certified counselor.  Deanna enjoys providing individual, group, couples, and family counseling.  She holds a bachelor’s in psychology and music from Emory University and a master’s and educational specialist degree in clinical mental health counseling from Florida State University.

She is passionate about working with fellow neurodivergent individuals toward self-acceptance and navigating a world that wasn’t built for them.  She enjoys working with neurodivergent clients and guiding them toward self-advocacy and greater autonomy.  She helps them change the things they want to change and embrace the unique parts of themselves that make them who they are.

Deanna’s specialty areas include autism, ADHD, borderline personality disorder, grief/loss, depression, trauma/PTSD, and self esteem.  Deanna is passionate about helping people with trauma recognize that they have control over their behaviors and see the value of internal and external boundaries and no longer tolerate being made to feel small.  Deanna understands the pervasive and somatic impact of repression and religious trauma on sexuality, consent, boundaries, and self-esteem and the importance of re-parenting, re-teaching, and re-learning to break the pattern. 

Deanna’s practice is informed by her training in counseling neurodivergent clients with a trauma informed somatic approach to autism and ADHD.  She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients develop mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills.  Other approaches Deanna draws from include neurodiversity affirming therapy, client-centered therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, strengths-based therapy, and narrative therapy.  

Deanna welcomes clients of all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual and romantic orientations.  She is LGBTQIA+ inclusive, poly/ENM-friendly, and kink and BDSM affirming.  She understands the healing nature of BDSM to many neurodivergent and traumatized individuals and affirms kink as a space where people find community, process trauma, and regain their power through clear negotiation.  She enjoys helping clients embrace themselves and find ways to increase safety within their interests.

Deanna is under the direction and supervision of Courtney Geter, LMFTS, CSTS.