About Deborah
Deborah Coppersmith is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She uses straightforward, practical methods so conversations stay focused on what matters. Sessions are calm and direct, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to cope day to day.
Deborah draws on 16 years of experience as an LPC licensed in Arizona and Oregon and practicing in Texas. She works with a broad range of concerns including depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, caregiver stress, and codependency. Her approach blends client-centered listening with action-oriented tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are added when people need help with emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions often center on clear goals such as reducing panic, improving sleep, or managing mood swings. Deborah also integrates emotionally-focused and existential perspectives to help people understand relationships and life meaning.
Work may include skill practice, behavior experiments, and identifying values to guide next steps. People choose her for practical guidance and steady support during transitions. She explains options in plain language and helps each person pick strategies that fit their life.
The aim is better day-to-day functioning and a clearer sense of direction.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Deborah commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening-first space where people can set their own goals. That approach focuses on understanding each person and responding to what they say, which helps people feel heard and less alone.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety or depression and then test small behavioral changes. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often helping with panic, worry, sleep problems, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will talk with each person about their symptoms, goals, and daily routines, and then recommend techniques to try. Decisions about tools and pacing are made together, with adjustments as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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