About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals can talk about what feels most urgent. Her style is practical and focused on small steps that can make daily life easier.
She draws on a client-centered outlook that invites people to set their own goals. Deborah uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance strategies to build new habits.
Background and approach
She also brings attachment-based ideas into sessions to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Deborah trained at the University of Akron with a bachelor’s degree in social work and holds a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University.
She also earned a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing doctoral work at Walden University, with recent dissertation research on post-traumatic growth among military members. Her work history includes outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, home-based programs, and overseas support for military communities. That variety shaped an ability to adapt therapy to different situations and schedules.
Deborah assists people facing depression, trauma, addictions, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and related challenges. Sessions focus on realistic strategies - changing patterns of thinking, building emotional skills, and practicing new behaviors at home. The aim is steady progress toward goals such as reducing anxiety, improving relationships, or regaining daily routines.
Deborah welcomes questions and partners with clients to find what helps most.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values, which can reduce avoidance and build a fuller life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior to lower anxiety and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships affect emotions and coping, and helps people form steadier connections and boundaries.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they review what’s working and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls suit deeper conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy parents and people managing work or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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