About DeBora
DeBora Turpin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and phobias. She focuses on practical change so clients can feel better and act differently. DeBora writes short, clear plans with clients and checks progress along the way.
She uses approaches that change thinking and behavior. She guides people to notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different reactions. She also teaches breathing and grounding tools to reduce intense emotions in the moment.
Background and approach
DeBora describes therapy as a partnership. She listens to each person's goals and helps them build step-by-step plans to reach those goals. Sessions often include simple homework and concrete skills to try between meetings.
Her background includes personal experience with family stress and overcoming hard times. That life experience informs a practical, hopeful style. She aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to having choices and clearer direction.
DeBora has three years of clinical experience and holds an Oklahoma LPC credential. She offers sessions in English and can work with people outside the United States. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life.
If someone prefers a direct, goal-focused counselor who blends skill-building with emotional support, DeBora presents a hands-on approach to make steady progress toward clearer goals.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Online sessions can use brief exercises, thought records, and homework to change patterns that keep problems going. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of painful memories by guiding rhythmical eye movements or other bilateral stimulation while a person recalls a memory; it can help with trauma symptoms and distress linked to past events. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and simple breathing or grounding practices to lower reactivity and support mood regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches in ways that feel manageable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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