About Debra
Debra Aquino is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Kentucky. She brings three years of professional experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. Her manner is warm and direct, making it easier for someone who is nervous to start talking about what matters most.
She focuses on practical steps that help with everyday problems like parenting strain, work stress, low self-esteem, and mood changes.
Background and approach
She also helps people coping with ADHD, grief, relationship concerns, and issues tied to seasonal mood shifts. Additional areas of attention include veteran and armed forces issues and multicultural concerns. Sessions emphasize listening first and then building simple, doable goals.
Debra blends client-centered conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used when someone wants short-term direction or clearer next steps. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level.
She avoids labels and focuses on what a person wants to change. That practical focus means clients leave with specific skills to manage anxiety, handle anger, or navigate family and career stressors. Debra offers therapy in English and accepts international clients.
She works through scheduled video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered therapy starts with listening and following the person’s lead. It focuses on understanding goals and building a respectful therapeutic relationship, which helps when someone needs a space to talk through anxiety or parenting concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical tools to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and mood shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful. That process includes checking goals, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and options that fit different routines. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when a written conversation feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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