About Debra
Debra Konecni is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona. She brings seven years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and other concerns. Debra focuses on practical steps people can take right away to feel steadier and more hopeful.
She uses a conversational, respectful style and adapts the work to each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what someone can handle. Debra encourages small, achievable changes and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her approach includes client-centered methods that keep the person's goals front and center. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different patterns of thinking. Emotion-focused work helps people name and process strong feelings when needed.
Debra has experience with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship issues. She also helps with sleep and eating problems, low self-esteem, anger, and life transitions. Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and challenges related to aging.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through several online formats. Debra tailors the plan to each person and aims to make therapy useful from the start. If someone wants practical support for anxiety or related concerns, she guides them through steps that fit their life and schedule.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Debra commonly uses client-centered techniques that focus on each person's goals and priorities, keeping the conversation grounded in what matters most to them. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the plan around their personal needs.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT works well for anxiety, sleep issues, and low mood by teaching practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Debra will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those needs. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work feels manageable and relevant.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when someone needs lower bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins and brief support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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