- Stress and anxiety
- Relationships and family
- CBT and ACT methods
About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is an Ohio LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with adults around stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and other life changes. Deborah helps people who are navigating transitions, identity questions, work pressures, and the everyday strain of starting adult life.
She trained in social work at the University of Akron and earned a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University. She also holds a master’s in philosophy and is completing a doctorate at Walden University, with dissertation research on post-traumatic growth and military members. Deborah has worked in outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, home-based programs, and overseas with military personnel and their families.
Her practice draws from client-centered ideas along with motivational interviewing and systems and developmental perspectives. She also uses cognitive behavioral approaches and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral methods when they fit the situation. Deborah aims to help people make practical changes and build coping skills through clear, focused conversation and exercises.
Sessions may include problem-solving around work, study, relationships, or parenting. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, sleep or eating concerns, and attention-related struggles. The emphasis is on helping clients set useful goals and try concrete strategies between sessions.
Deborah has substantial experience with a wide range of issues across the life span, including caregiving stress, chronic illness, attachment and adoption-related matters, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. She works in English and practices in Ohio as an LPCC.
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by emphasizing what matters and practical actions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in adult relationships; it can help people with intimacy, abandonment, and family-related concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses experiments and practice to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is often collaborative. Deborah will work with clients to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That may mean blending ACT, attachment ideas, and CBT techniques depending on what feels most helpful in sessions.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when appropriate, and remove travel time. It can also make it simpler to continue care during job or school transitions. Licensed professionals often adapt exercises, homework, and skills practice to an online setting so therapy remains practical and goal-focused.
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Primary focus
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, addiction, grief, parenting, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and other life changes listed in her specialties.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and practical, using motivational interviewing, systems and developmental ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques to set goals and try strategies between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working in outpatient settings, hospitals, disaster teams, home-based programs, and overseas with military communities.
Is she a licensed professional and where does she practice?
She is an Ohio LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) and practices in Ohio.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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