About Debra
Debra Gionet is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 25 years of practice. She helps people who are stressed, worried, or facing major life changes. Her work often focuses on anxiety, work pressure, relationship strain, and concerns about self-esteem.
She takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. Sessions are a place to talk through what feels hard and try small, practical steps that make daily life easier. She blends talk therapy with strategies from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based methods to help clients notice what matters and act on it.
Background and approach
Debra brings long experience with issues many people face after big life shifts. That includes fertility and pregnancy concerns, career transitions, and the strain of parenting or young adulthood. She also addresses patterns tied to family of origin, codependency, and attachment problems.
Her background includes work with body image and eating and food-related issues, workplace stress, and challenges around narcissism and communication problems. She can adapt sessions to someone wanting a faith-informed perspective or to those who prefer a secular approach. In sessions she focuses on clear communication skills, building emotional resilience, and setting achievable goals.
People work on immediate coping tools and longer-term patterns at the same time. Her practice aims to help people feel more steady, connected to their goals, and able to move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Debra often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, life transitions, and decisions about work or relationships.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT offers concrete skills for managing worry, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and practicing new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and she will check in to make sure the plan fits your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth weekly sessions, phone calls can fit a break at work or times with lower bandwidth, and chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins or short reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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