About Deborah
Deborah LaBounty is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and address challenges like addiction, depression, and relationship struggles. Deborah keeps language simple and invites straightforward conversations so clients can say what’s on their minds without feeling judged.
Her sessions aim to be calm and practical. She listens first, then works with each person to set helpful goals.
Background and approach
That might mean learning new coping skills, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, or trying techniques to reduce intense emotional reactions. Deborah uses a mix of approaches to meet different needs. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the conversation grounded in the client’s concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change patterns of thinking and behavior that feed anxiety and low mood. For trauma or deeply held painful memories she may use EMDR to support processing those experiences. Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are also available for people needing emotional regulation and better interpersonal skills.
Many clients come for support with grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, or career stress. She also addresses issues such as attachment, abandonment, codependency, and substance use. Sessions are offered in English and reflect practical steps you can try between meetings.
Starting is simple: select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that fits your life. Deborah aims to help people gain tools and confidence to move forward one step at a time.
How Deborah's Approaches Work Online
Deborah uses several grounded approaches to help people manage symptoms and move forward. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience, and it helps people feel heard while deciding what matters most to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.For people coping with trauma or painful memories, she may integrate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, which supports processing distressing experiences in a paced way. Each approach serves different needs, and Deborah treats finding the right fit as a collaborative process. She will talk with you about your goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then shape a plan together.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy or changing schedules. Video calls let you work face-to-face when that helps, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be good for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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