About Debra
Debra Stone is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people dealing with anxiety and related concerns. She works with adults facing stress, depression, relationship strain, addiction issues, anger, self-esteem challenges, and life transitions. Her approach aims to make the first steps feel manageable and clear.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to change. Sessions focus on identifying practical steps and building on what already works.
Background and approach
Debra emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and encourages small, realistic goals. Her background includes ten years of professional experience in clinical settings in Florida. That work has included supporting people with parenting and family challenges, blended family issues, and divorce and separation.
She has also worked with clients dealing with drug and alcohol addiction, process addictions, bipolar disorder, and aging or intellectual disability concerns. Debra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward concrete coping skills. She offers a direct but warm style that balances goal-focused work with emotional support.
Conversations typically include problem-solving, coping strategies, and exploration of relationship patterns. People can expect a collaborative partnership where the therapist helps shape tools to fit a client's life. Debra supports clients through career stress, intimacy-related issues, guilt and shame, and challenges common to young adults and women.
Her aim is to help people find clearer, more manageable ways forward.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Debra relies on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to an online setting. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, like step-by-step breathing and behavioral strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes problem-solving and behavior changes for addiction and relationship issues, helping people identify triggers, set goals, and build new routines that support recovery and healthier connections.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Clients help shape the work so it fits their needs and life circumstances.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or writing through thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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