About Deborah
Deborah Gaudet is a licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of practice. She lives in Northern New Mexico and brings a hopeful, realistic attitude to therapy. Her style is friendly and practical, with an emphasis on working together to address current problems.
Her work spans stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and addiction recovery. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and the strain of parenting or caregiving.
Background and approach
Deborah pays attention to how life stages and social factors - like income and inequality - shape emotional struggles. Deborah uses several therapy approaches including cognitive behavior strategies and attachment-based ideas. She focuses on feelings and personal experience to help people find shifts where problems have felt stuck.
Sessions often combine exploring emotions with concrete steps to change everyday patterns. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style. Deborah values collaboration and tailors sessions to each person's goals.
She brings curiosity and practical tools, aiming to make therapy relevant to daily life. Her training includes a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. She holds the New Mexico LPCC credential and works in English.
Deborah accepts international clients and offers multiple online session formats to fit varied schedules and needs.
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Deborah frequently uses client-centered methods that prioritize each person's experience and goals. This approach means sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and supporting the person's own decisions. It works well for people who want a therapist who follows their lead and helps them notice what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors together. CBT offers practical tools for managing anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood shifts by changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building different habits. These techniques are easy to practice between sessions and track while working remotely.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will discuss what seems most useful based on a person's needs, goals, and preferences and then adjust the plan as progress unfolds. The process is collaborative and goal-focused so people know what to expect.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, and messaging is convenient for short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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