About Debra
Dr. Debra Brown greets people with a calm, direct style. She helps those who are anxious, stressed, grieving, or wrestling with relationship and addiction concerns.
She has 27 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker and approaches conversations with warmth and respect. She focuses on what matters most to each person. Sessions are practical and goal-focused.
Clients can expect to talk through current struggles, learn coping tools, and build steps toward change.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years of work in behavioral health across a wide range of issues. This has given her experience helping people cope with chronic illness, trauma, mood changes, and career or parenting stress. She brings that experience into everyday sessions so strategies fit real life.
Dr. Brown uses several well-known therapy approaches. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and encourage values-based action.
Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she builds trust and listens closely. Sessions are offered from Georgia and she speaks English. People may choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to work together.
Starting is straightforward: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for you.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take steps based on their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors to find practical strategies that reduce anxious or depressive symptoms. It often includes simple exercises to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationships shape present trust and connection, which can help with intimacy and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust based on what helps. That collaboration makes it easier to pick tools and exercises that feel doable for day-to-day life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when seeing nonverbal cues matters, phone calls can fit into a busy day, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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