DeEtta “Dee” Rader

About DeEtta “Dee” Rader

DeEtta “Dee” Rader brings more than 20 years of experience in education, mentoring, and supporting adolescents and families. Before entering the mental health field, Dee served as a middle school mathematics teacher and instructional coach. She now works as a substitute teacher at a private college-preparatory high school. Her extensive school experience gives her a strong understanding of the academic, emotional, behavioral, and family pressures that children and adolescents may face.

Dee holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education and is pursuing a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy through Touro University Worldwide. She is completing her clinical practicum at Mindful Healing Counseling, where she works with adolescents and adults in both individual and group settings.

As a United States Navy veteran, educator, widow, and therapist-in-training, Dee values resilience, authenticity, compassion, and personal growth. She is especially interested in supporting adolescents, adults, couples, and families who are navigating grief and loss, major life transitions, relationship difficulties, family conflict, emotional distress, and substance use concerns.

Dee believes clients are the experts on their own experiences and deserve a therapeutic environment where they feel respected, understood, and safe being themselves. Her approach is warm, collaborative, strengths-based, and client-centered.

She helps clients recognize their strengths, explore patterns that may be keeping them stuck, improve communication, and develop practical tools that support meaningful change. Her goal is to help each client feel more confident, connected, and capable of moving forward.

Originally from California, Dee now calls the Las Vegas area home. Outside her professional and academic work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, fishing, watching Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, attending Las Vegas Aces games, and relaxing at home with her two cats, George and Jackie Robinson.

Dee considers it an honor to walk alongside clients as they build healthier relationships, strengthen their confidence, and move toward the lives they want to create.