About Deborah
Deborah Tommey is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps adults manage anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression, and related concerns. She works with people on self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep struggles, anger, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Deborah offers support for LGBTQ concerns and ADHD as well as caregiving and aging-related stress.
Deborah begins by listening and asking what change the client wants. She takes an optimistic, empathic approach and treats each person as unique.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real goals and practical steps that fit the person’s life. Her work blends person-centered care with solution-focused and existential techniques. That means Deborah centers the conversation on the client’s perspective, helps identify small workable changes, and invites reflection about meaning and values.
She also brings mindfulness skills into sessions when those tools will help reduce worry or increase emotional regulation. Deborah has 15 years of experience and holds a Master of Counseling from Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, and is licensed in Oklahoma as an LPC. She has led support groups and provided training for other professionals on behavioral health topics.
Online and phone sessions are part of her practice, and she uses messaging between sessions for brief updates. New clients are invited to define goals up front so sessions stay focused and practical.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Deborah often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the session on the person’s experience and priorities. That approach helps people feel heard and choose goals that matter to them. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Mindfulness exercises can be taught and practiced during video or phone sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest a mix of strategies. The plan is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new concerns come up.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let a therapist and client read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break during a busy day. Messaging is available for brief check-ins or updates between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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