About Deborah
Deborah LaBounty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings ten years of clinical experience to conversations about anxiety, stress, addiction, and relationship concerns. Deborah aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are nervous about asking for help.
Deborah creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what is hardest for them. She listens closely and helps clients name difficult feelings and patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding how problems began and how they keep happening. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, sleeping difficulties, and parenting strain. She also supports those facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and substance use issues.
Phobias are among the specific areas she lists as part of her practice. Deborah uses methods drawn from client-centered care, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, existential reflection, and eye movement approaches. She adapts techniques to the person in front of her rather than following a rigid protocol.
The goal is steady progress that fits each person's life and values. People who prefer straightforward, practical guidance often find her approach helpful. Deborah emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and small steps that build confidence over time.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Deborah draws on client-centered therapy to place the person's priorities at the center of each session. That means listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and building goals from the client's own values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT skills offer concrete ways to manage overwhelming feelings and improve communication during heated moments. These approaches are chosen to match a person's concerns and strengths, and Deborah works together with clients to figure out what will help most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quicker skill practice, or a way to stay connected between longer sessions. Licensed professionals adapt tools and pacing to fit how a person wants to work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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