About Deborah
Deborah Winningham is an Ohio-licensed social worker with four years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. Deborah approaches clients with straightforward, respectful care and encourages small practical steps forward.
She sees people as the experts on their own lives and highlights the strengths they already have. In sessions she helps clients set clear goals and practice skills that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
That can include learning ways to manage panic, build confidence, improve communication, or handle major life changes. Her work draws on methods that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and skill building. She blends tools from cognitive-behavioral approaches with strategies that focus on emotions and relationships.
Sessions aim to be direct and pragmatic while honoring each person’s unique story. Deborah also brings attention to specific concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, and challenges connected to adoption or aging. She supports people coping with career shifts, financial worries, and mood disorders like bipolar or panic disorder.
People looking to begin can expect a collaborative process. She invites clients to name the problems that matter most and to try practical steps between sessions. Deborah encourages small, steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to you and taking small, meaningful actions toward those values. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by combining mindful noticing with practical steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for panic, mood disorders, and daily coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah treats approach selection as a conversation. She will help you decide together which methods to try based on your needs, goals, and what feels most useful to you.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions to occur from different locations. Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current session options before booking so you know whether video or phone is offered. Many people use remote sessions for steady check-ins, focused skills practice, or when scheduling requires more flexibility.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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