About Debbie
Debbie Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma who helps people managing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. She brings 25 years of clinical experience to brief and longer-term therapy. Her approach is straightforward and goal-focused, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel better and cope with life’s demands.
Debbie began her counseling path during college after working at a Christian sports camp and feeling called to this work.
Background and approach
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Counseling from Southwest Baptist University and a master’s degree in Community Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy from John Brown University. Over time she co-founded a counseling center that provided services across a four-state area and worked with child advocacy groups.
Her background includes substantial work with trauma, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. In 2012 she completed certification in equine therapy through OK Corral. More recently she has done special needs testing for a local school system and provided therapy services there.
Debbie often uses practical, skills-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work. Sessions typically involve setting clear goals, practicing new ways of thinking and behaving, and building routines that support sleep, eating, and daily functioning. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, first responder issues, grief, and life transitions.
The focus is on helping clients identify next steps, try small changes, and track progress toward clearer goals.
How her approaches work online
Debbie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression going. CBT tends to focus on practical exercises, short experiments, and skills people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and stress.She also uses solution-focused methods that emphasize small, concrete steps toward a preferred future. That approach helps people identify what’s already working, set clear goals, and try specific actions to move forward quickly.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then recommend techniques to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and homework. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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