About Cletus
Cletus Deller is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 25 years of experience to sessions. He focuses on practical, goal-oriented work rather than long, open-ended talk. Cletus aims to help people make concrete changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
He began his career as a teacher and later built a counseling practice rooted in structured therapies. Cletus uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to teach coping skills and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
He also draws on attachment-focused ideas when relationships and intimacy are the source of distress. Cletus often works with people facing trauma, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD. He pays attention to issues that relate to adoption and foster care, abandonment, blended family stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and communication or control difficulties.
He also addresses the effects of narcissistic and borderline relationship dynamics on well-being. His approach is direct and pragmatic. Sessions tend to focus on clear steps you can try between meetings, skill practice, and straightforward strategies that relieve symptoms.
He will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their situation and goals. Cletus practices in Florida and offers online options for people outside the area. He works in English and accepts international clients.
To begin, a short questionnaire helps match you and schedule your first session.
Using focused therapies online to support practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation when you want clearer direction rather than only symptom relief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, address addictive patterns, and change behaviors that cause problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what matters most to you and try methods that fit your goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques can be adjusted as you progress.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you use visual cues for skill practice and role plays. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when travel or location are factors.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English