About Deborah
Deborah Sharp, LPC, offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low mood. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused so clients can start making small changes right away. Deborah shapes each conversation to fit an individual's needs.
She listens without judgment and helps people sort out what matters most to them. Together they set goals and try tools that can be used between sessions. Her work draws on several well-known methods.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages a focus on values and meaningful action even when feelings are hard.
Deborah has five years of clinical experience in Oklahoma and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential. She has supported people coping with trauma and abuse, relationship and communication problems, grief and loss, and a range of personality and attachment concerns. Sessions are practical and paced to the client.
Deborah aims to build skills for handling intense feelings, improving self-esteem, and managing day-to-day stress. She invites people to take steps they feel ready for, while offering steady support along the way.
How Deborah uses therapy approaches online
Deborah draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on recognizing difficult feelings while taking action toward what matters. ACT can help when avoidance and worry get in the way of living a meaningful life. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her style too, emphasizing an empathetic, nonjudgmental stance so clients steer the pace and focus of sessions.
Deciding on an approach is a team effort. Deborah will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust as needed. The choice of techniques evolves with progress and client preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules. Video is good for longer talks and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or exercises between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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