About Debbie
Debbie Franzen-Lang is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with concerns such as depression, grief, relationship trouble, parenting strain, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and team-oriented, aiming to clarify problems and set practical goals.
Debbie treats issues around eating, body image, intimacy, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing career transitions, bipolar mood challenges, panic attacks, and self-harm thoughts.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include divorce and separation, infidelity, multicultural concerns, and needs of hearing impaired clients and veterans. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused work to address feelings and patterns. She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during life changes and uses the Gottman Method for relationship work.
Sessions emphasize clear steps and gentle reflection. Debbie trained at Northeast Louisiana University, earning a Master of Education in 1991, and has a long history in counseling and supervision. She practices in Louisiana and offers telehealth options alongside in-person care.
Her methods aim to help people set achievable goals and practice new ways of coping. In sessions she focuses on collaboration. Clients can expect practical suggestions, gentle challenge, and space to talk through painful experiences.
The work moves at a pace that fits each person, with attention to immediate concerns and longer term goals.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's experience. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and uses exercises to shift patterns that keep anxiety or depression going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, concentrates on emotions and attachment in relationships and can be useful for improving closeness and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean starting with listening and reflection, then adding CBT tools or EFT techniques as trust and clarity grow.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship or emotion work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can fit short updates or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while working with licensed professionals and therapists.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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