About Deborah
Deborah Jones is an ACA counsellor with two decades of professional experience. She supports people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, low self‑esteem or changes in life. Her manner is direct but warm, helping people take the next practical step when life feels stuck.
Deborah commonly uses a narrative and solution‑focused approach. That means she helps people tell their story differently and find small, practical changes that lead to real shifts.
Background and approach
She also draws on Internal Family Systems when deeper inner work is needed to address recurring patterns or painful memories. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy difficulties, eating and sleeping issues, career stress, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar.
She also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds, caregiver stress, chronic pain and family of origin issues. Sessions aim to be goal‑oriented and collaborative. Deborah helps people set manageable goals and tests strategies together to see what helps most.
When a concern needs a different pace, she shifts to approaches that allow deeper exploration of inner parts and past hurts. Deborah offers practical tools for emotion regulation, coping and communication. She encourages active steps between sessions, while also making space to process grief and trauma.
Her style is focused on helping people regain function and find a clearer sense of direction.
How Deborah's Approaches Work Online
Deborah uses solution‑focused and narrative approaches in online sessions. Solution‑focused work looks at what is already working and builds small, concrete steps to change a problem. It suits people wanting practical strategies for anxiety, stress or everyday challenges. Narrative therapy helps people examine the stories they tell about themselves and rewrite them to reduce shame, improve self‑esteem and change unhelpful patterns.She also integrates Internal Family Systems when deeper healing is needed. That approach helps identify and work with different inner parts that hold emotions or beliefs, which can be useful for trauma, recurring relationship patterns or long‑standing self‑criticism. Deborah discusses options together and helps each person choose the approach that fits their goals and pace.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and shared materials, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text‑based messaging work well for brief check‑ins, homework support or situations where shorter interactions are preferable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health needs and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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