About Deborah
Deborah Feingold-Fisher is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports concerns related to identity, parenting, relationships, and life transitions. She uses a straightforward, person-focused style in sessions.
Deborah aims to make it easy to talk about difficult feelings. She creates space for people to share their thoughts without fear of judgment. Her approach blends practical skills with acceptance.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness practices teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and find calm in the moment. Deborah also uses Client-Centered Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people set goals that matter to them.
She works collaboratively, tailoring steps to each person’s needs and pace. This can include managing parenting stress, addressing ADHD-related challenges, or coping with trauma and abuse. She has experience supporting concerns across a wide range of life issues, including self-esteem, career changes, compassion fatigue, and gender dysphoria.
Sessions aim to build practical skills, clearer thinking, and more effective coping. People who prefer remote care can meet with her from Illinois. Deborah focuses on steady progress and practical tools to help clients move toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Deborah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on spotting and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and stress going, which can be practiced between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to lower reactivity and increase calm in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deborah works together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time so people build skills at a manageable pace and see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or short coaching between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, school, and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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