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Finances
- Cost per Session: $35 - $75
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 27 Years
- License: Arizona / 19587
- School: Concordia and Ottawa Universities
- Year Graduated: 2006
Additional Credentials
- Membership: American Psychological Association / 22197067
- Member Since: 2010
- Membership: International Center for Life Story Innovations and Practice
- Member Since: 2018
Deena Gayle Hitzke's Groups
Self-Realization/Psychospiritual Development
Based upon Transpersonal Psychology, Self-Realization Therapy involves meditation, journaling, life story work, the use of self-help workbooks, and psychoeducation, in addition to group cognitive processing therapy techniques, to form a circle of trust within which patients learn to gain self-control, insight, self-esteem, and self-confidence. The method also includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, educating patients about the connections between our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, how to test the accuracy of their perceptions, and how to use self-talk and mind-body work to alleviate distress.
Guided Integrative Autobiography
Based upon life review methods for alleviating anxiety, depression, and grief, this class engages participants in empowering reminiscence through writing, art, dance, music, scrapbooking, storytelling, reflective practice, and group processing. The method also includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, educating patients about the functions of reminiscence, as they relate to psychosocial development. Guided Integrative Autobiography encourages patients to reconstruct their life story and examine both positive and negative experiences, toward integrating aspects of self and experience for a sense of wholeness, life purpose, and life meaning.
Complex Grief Therapy
A structured 16-week program that involves educating patients about complicated grief and how it's treated, exploring their grief reactions, complicated grief symptoms, and patterns of adjustment or maladjustment. The process encourages patients to hold imagined conversations with those lost, and to tell and retell the circumstances of the death, while learning to tell the story with less and less distress- a process called systematic desensitization. CGT has been proven effective for enhancing the ability to cope and process thoughts and emotions, focus on self-positive vs. self-negative reminiscence, and reduce feelings of blame and guilt.
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Specialties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief
Issues
- Addiction
- Ageism
- Alcohol Use
- Bipolar Disorder
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Emotional Disturbance
- End of Life Issues
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Mood Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Gay Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Transgender Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Certified Life Cycle Celebrancy
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Existential
- Interpersonal
- Narrative
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Strength-Based
- Transformative Reminiscence and Life Review
Modality
- Individuals
- Group