About Debra
Debra Vaughan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, traumatic experiences, and life transitions. She helps people who struggle with sleep, eating, addiction, and relationship concerns.
Debra also supports those working on self-esteem, self-love, and coping skills for daily life. She brings 11 years of counseling experience to sessions. Her style is practical and person-focused.
She listens first, then helps people set clear, small goals they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at useful change rather than long explanations. Debra uses several clinical approaches depending on the person’s needs. She blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral methods to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and skills for high-stress moments. Narrative and solution-focused approaches are part of her toolbox too. Narrative work helps people reframe painful stories they carry about themselves.
Solution-focused methods break problems into manageable steps and highlight strengths to build from. Her background includes work with people affected by trauma and addictive behaviors, and with those facing parenting or career stress. Debra offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she accepts international clients.
She aims to make therapy fit into a busy life and to help people find practical ways to feel steadier.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead and reflects feelings back, helping people feel heard and clearer about what they want to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try out different behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, or sleep troubles.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication, which can be useful for stress, anger, and intense mood shifts.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which methods to try based on goals, daily demands, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people keep visual contact and mimic in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, frequent check-ins and support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or childcare schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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