About Deborah
Deborah Goza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. She offers straightforward, practical therapy that aims to make sense to each person. Deborah listens with respect and compassion and helps people set clear goals for change.
She commonly helps people coping with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work also covers career questions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a range of attachment and identity issues. Her approach begins by helping people learn more about themselves. Deborah focuses on building insight into patterns that run beneath daily behavior.
From there she helps clients turn that insight into concrete goals and steps they can try between sessions. Deborah draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based practices, along with client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas when useful. She aims to combine practical exercises with supportive listening so people can see progress.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and preferences. Deborah encourages people to set goals, try small experiments, and reassess progress. She frames therapy as a collaborative process grounded in real-life steps toward clearer thinking and better functioning.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Deborah uses cognitive behavioral ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in ways that are easy to apply to everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing difficult feelings, clarifying values, and taking committed action even when emotions are uncomfortable.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah treats therapy as a collaboration and will discuss goals, preferences, and what techniques fit each person's needs. She may blend methods over time so the plan fits how someone responds and what they hope to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video lets people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs flexible, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, school, or caregiving routines while still working on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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