About Deborah
Deborah Thoennes is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. Her approach focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can move toward clearer goals.
With 15 years of clinical experience, Deborah draws on several counseling methods to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered techniques to make space for a person's story.
Background and approach
She applies cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Deborah also uses emotionally focused ideas to help people recognize and respond to strong feelings. Mindfulness practices are offered when slowing down and noticing the present moment is helpful.
She combines these methods rather than following a single formula. In sessions she listens without judgment and works collaboratively to set goals. The conversation and plan are tailored to each person's circumstances rather than pulled from a preset checklist.
That means pacing, homework, and the kinds of skills practiced change based on what helps most. She practices in Wisconsin and conducts work by video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Deborah aims to support people through concrete steps toward better coping and greater confidence.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center. It involves open listening and reflecting back what matters to the client, which helps people feel heard and clarify goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses simple exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving, useful for anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest methods to try. That collaboration means the plan can change over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day and to capture thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it around work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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