About Deborah
Deborah Richert is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) with 11 years of experience. She offers a relaxed, down-to-earth approach that helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and addiction. Deborah focuses on strengths and practical steps rather than jargon.
She makes space for honest conversation without judgment. Deborah uses attachment-focused ideas to help people understand their relationship patterns. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change how they affect daily life.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies and client-centered listening are part of her toolbox when people need emotional regulation skills and validation. Her background includes work with mood disorders, panic attacks, substance use concerns, and the emotional fallout of trauma and loss. She pays attention to how chronic pain, feelings of abandonment, or codependency complicate recovery and coping.
Communication problems and control issues are also common topics she addresses. Sessions emphasize clear goals and real-world strategies. Deborah helps people build skills they can use between meetings, such as grounding practices, thought records, and communication tools inspired by the Gottman Method.
She keeps the tone supportive and often lightens difficult moments with a sense of humor. People who choose Deborah can expect a collaborative process. She invites clients to shape the work and adjusts methods to match each person’s needs and goals.
Her aim is to reduce distress and help people find steadier footing in day-to-day life.
How attachment, CBT, and DBT translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape reactions today. Online sessions can use this approach to identify triggers and practice new ways of relating in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. In video or text sessions clients learn simple exercises like thought records and behavior experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive moods.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. These skills often translate well into short phone check-ins, brief chats, or written coaching between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and help pick techniques that fit. Methods may be combined and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work through material face-to-face and use worksheets together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, reminders, or practicing skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different ways of working until you find the right fit.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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