Deveta Gelispie

Deveta Gelispie, LCSW, is a licensed clinician in Illinois with seven years of clinical experience. She uses a range of clinical approaches that include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Existential Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Her practice emphasizes tailoring interventions to the priorities each person brings to sessions.

Her listed specialties span relationship and family concerns, self-esteem and life purpose, career development, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, parenting, anger, bipolar, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include attachment and commitment issues, jealousy, multicultural concerns, personality disorders, prejudice and discrimination, and women's issues.

Sessions are presented as a collaborative process centered on attentive listening and guided exploration. Deveta combines practical, skills-based work with opportunities for deeper reflection, allowing clients to shape the pace and focus of their therapeutic work while drawing on techniques suited to the presenting concerns.