About Deborah
Deborah Cho is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience in mental health care. She trained and practiced across different settings in New York, including hospitals, community programs, public schools, and a substance use rehabilitation center. Deborah brings steady, practical support to people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions.
Her style is honest, compassionate, and interactive. Sessions focus on noticing thoughts and behaviors, building useful coping skills, and making small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
She uses clear explanations and collaborative goal-setting so people know what to expect from therapy. Deborah leans on cognitive behavioral methods while also drawing from attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas. That mix helps when someone wants to shift unhelpful thinking, improve important relationships, or process past hurts.
She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy when managing intense emotions or chronic stress. She has worked with people dealing with depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, and identity-related stress including LGBT issues. Deborah also addresses concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver fatigue, and career stress.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to each person’s strengths. Deborah helps clients track progress and adjust plans as needed. The aim is steady improvement in day-to-day functioning and a clearer sense of purpose.
Approaches and how they translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating in real time with therapist feedback.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed during video or phone meetings.
Emotionally focused ideas help people name and process difficult emotions and strengthen emotional bonds. In remote sessions this can mean guided conversations, emotion labeling, and experiments to try between meetings that improve emotional awareness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit a person’s situation, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay focused on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and text-based options suit quick updates or ongoing support between meetings. These choices help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
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