Dr. Deanna Hughes

Dr. Hughes always puts me at ease and helps find ways to challenge myself. I feel better after my appointments and feel like I am making progress?

The talk therapy sessions I have with Dr. Hughes have been essential to my healing from long-term victimization from extremely violent crimes, criminals and a person with a very high level of PTSD. Her patient centered therapy is well legitimized and documented in the book The Doctor and the Soul/From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy by Dr. Viktor E. Frankel, who is a Nazi concentration camp survivor. Furthermore, Dr. Hughes, true to Logotherapy attempts to assist a patient to achieve the "highest possible activation of their life, to lead him/her, so to speak, from the state of "patiens " to that of "agents". And she well realizes that the pain, trauma and victimization of each person's human being is particular and specific to each human being. Without my talk therapy sessions with Dr. Hughes, I would not be the highly functional person with severe PTSD I am. She is a great therapist and psychologist and well deserving of her PhD. 👍👍👍👍👍 Of course, the Celexa/Citalopram I have been taking for 20 years has been immensely helpful in curbing my anxiety and extreme emotional reaction to the continued victimization I go through to the present day.

Had a psychological evaluation required before being approved for a Spinal Cord Stimulator. It was a simple written test which only took about ten minutes, and self-completed while she was seeing another patient. I chatted with her afterward and she was very pleasant and seemed to be very competent.She was to transmit the results to my pain doctor the next day. When I didn't hear from my pain doctor's office confirming receipt of the test after EIGHT DAYS, I called their office and they stated they had not yet received it. They immediately requested it again, and received it that afternoon...(this was after I had called Dr. Hughes office to inform her of my unhappiness with the matter). This results in a delay in approval of my pain stimulator by 8 days which means eight additional days of intense nerve pain from sciatica and lumbar spinal stenosis which I have. Jerry White, Jacksonville, Fl.