About Debra
Debra "Debbie" Briggs helps people cope with stress and anxiety and works with trauma, self-esteem, life changes, and ADHD. She encourages practical steps that reduce overwhelm and restore a sense of control. Debbie greets each person with calm focus and clear, everyday language.
She takes a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions. Conversations look at what is most pressing and then build simple strategies to manage symptoms. Sessions often include mindfulness skills, problem-solving, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Debbie draws on 14 years of clinical experience as a licensed mental health counselor. She has worked with people facing sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, attachment and adoption concerns, caregiver stress, and family-origin difficulties. That background informs her approach to trauma and recovery.
She centers the client's own priorities and strengths when planning work together. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what each person can handle. Homework and short exercises are offered when useful to practice new skills between visits.
Debbie offers services in English and Spanish and practices in Washington. She frames therapy as a step-by-step process and supports people as they develop clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and more resilient coping. Her style is warm, practical, and goal oriented.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered work focuses on the client's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps people identify strengths, goals, and the next practical steps to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and offers clear tools to change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address traumatic memories by guiding structured recall alongside bilateral stimulation to reduce distress linked to those memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and match techniques to the client's needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing written work between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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