About Deborah
Deborah Lee is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 31 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and practical, and she emphasizes honest, respectful conversation from the first session.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Emotionally-Focused and Narrative methods are woven in when emotions and personal stories need attention.
Background and approach
Deborah also offers straightforward skills coaching on communication, stress reduction, sleep, and self-esteem. Her work combines talk, practical tools, and teaching. Sessions often include skill practice, feedback, and small homework tasks to test new ways of coping between meetings.
She describes therapy as a team effort where the client’s goals guide the plan. Deborah has long experience with complex situations such as substance use concerns, mood disorders, panic, and trauma-related issues. She also supports people with caregiving stress, chronic illness, aging-related concerns, and sexuality topics including kink and gender dysphoria.
She aims to help clients find clearer direction and more usable coping skills. People who want a direct, compassionate clinician will find her straightforward approach helpful. She accepts international clients and works from Ohio as a licensed professional.
To begin, she asks clients to pick goals and try practical steps that fit their everyday lives.
How Deborah's Approaches Work Online
Deborah uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on what matters most to each person, offering empathic listening and guidance while you set the agenda. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking and behavior, then suggests simple experiments and skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Deborah will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan over time. Clients shape the pace and focus, and Deborah supports making practical changes between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and emotion work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are helpful for shorter check-ins, skill coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options let people maintain regular contact, try techniques in real time, and work on goals without added travel time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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