About Deborah
Deborah Goza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. She offers straightforward, down-to-earth counseling that aims to make sense for everyday life. Deborah treats common concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress with respectful and compassionate care.
She focuses on helping people understand patterns that live below awareness. That begins with simple conversations to identify feelings, habits, and goals. From there she helps clients set clear, realistic steps to change what isn't working.
Background and approach
Deborah blends several well-known approaches in her work. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, uses client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on the person's experience, and incorporates mindfulness and acceptance strategies to manage stress and emotions.
Her practice also addresses a broad range of issues including parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, anger, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She lists phobias among areas she works with and supports people coping with trauma and life changes. Sessions are adapted to each person's needs, with an emphasis on clear goals and measurable steps.
Deborah aims to create practical plans people can try between sessions. She encourages taking the first step and offers guidance while clients work toward a more balanced life.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Deborah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this method often helps with anxiety, depression, phobias, and sleep or eating concerns. She also uses client-centered therapy which focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead so sessions feel relevant and respectful. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are woven in to help manage stress, build emotional awareness, and tolerate difficult feelings without avoiding them.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Deborah will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust techniques and the pace of work so the plan fits the person’s life and priorities rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep progress moving between in-person commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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