About Deborah
Deborah Salant is a licensed independent social worker with 33 years of experience. She practices from Massachusetts and speaks English and French. Deborah focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and addiction, and she also helps with relationship, parenting, and grief concerns.
Her approach adapts to each person. She begins by taking a brief history to understand why someone is reaching out. From there she and the client set clear goals and check progress as therapy continues.
Background and approach
Deborah draws on several ways of working, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas. She uses these to address chronic anxiety or depression, substance issues, intimacy and relationship concerns, eating or sleeping problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions are usually weekly or every other week, depending on the stage of work.
She supports people of all sexual orientations and identities and has long experience with issues around aging, caregiver stress, and blended family dynamics. Practical matters are discussed up front. Deborah will review what brought someone in, what they hope to change, and a plan for moving forward.
That makes the work focused and easier to measure over time.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy begins by focusing on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens with curiosity, reflects what she hears, and helps the client name goals and next steps. This approach is useful when someone needs steady, empathic support and practical problem solving.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Online CBT often uses brief exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleeping or eating difficulties.
Emotionally-focused work helps people understand and change the patterns that keep them stuck in painful emotional cycles. It can be valuable for intimacy and relationship concerns and for managing strong emotions tied to grief or trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. She checks in about what helps and what does not, so the work stays practical and responsive.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and do longer work, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or stepwise support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or changing circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, French
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