About Deborah
Deborah Cho is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of clinical experience based in New York. She has provided care in hospitals, community programs, public schools, a substance use rehabilitation center, and independent practice. Deborah focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, mood disorders, and the fallout of trauma and abuse.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for everyday life. Her style is compassionate, direct, and interactive.
Background and approach
She uses a person-centered stance that highlights each person’s strengths. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, try new coping skills, and connect past experiences to present challenges. Deborah draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas.
She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when helpful. These tools guide practical steps people can try between sessions. She has worked with people facing addictions, relationship and communication problems, grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and identity-related concerns for LGBT clients.
Deborah also has experience with issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care history, aging concerns, body image, and chronic illness challenges. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Deborah aims to create a collaborative plan so clients can set realistic goals and build lasting coping strategies.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people see how past bonds affect trust, closeness, and reactivity in relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching skills that can be practiced between sessions. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name feelings to improve connection and emotional regulation, which can be helpful around relationship strain and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deborah will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She encourages trialing techniques and adjusting plans based on what works in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or work through issues between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
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