About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and related concerns. She is straightforward and practical in sessions, offering clear steps people can try between meetings. Her aim is to help people move forward in meaningful, manageable ways.
She trained in social work at the University of Akron and earned a master's degree in community counseling from Malone University.
Background and approach
Deborah also holds a master's degree in philosophy and is completing a doctorate at Walden University, with dissertation research on post-traumatic growth among military members. Over her career she has worked in outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, and home-based programs.
She has experience working overseas with military members and their families, and with people dealing with addiction, mood disorders, and trauma-related concerns. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and trauma-focused approaches to address symptoms and daily challenges. She also uses ideas from systems and developmental theory to look at relationships and life stages that affect current struggles.
Deborah helps with a wide range of issues including grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related difficulties. She works with individuals, youth, and groups, and tailors her style to each person's goals and pace.
How Deborah's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Deborah often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking action consistent with those values while learning skills to notice difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try behavior changes that reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with the client about goals, what has helped or not helped before, and together they will choose or adapt methods that fit the person's needs and pace. That shared planning helps shape each session and the homework or exercises between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience and flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports quick updates or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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