About Debra
Dr. Debra Brown welcomes people who are anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck and want practical help. She writes in straightforward language and focuses on small, usable steps.
Dr. Brown blends warmth with clear guidance to help people move toward goals they care about. She has 27 years of experience as a licensed clinician and holds LCSW and CSW credentials.
Over her career she has supported people facing addiction, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She also helps those dealing with stress, self-esteem concerns, parenting pressures, and work-related changes. In sessions she keeps things grounded and conversational. She uses methods that teach skills for managing distress, changing unhelpful thinking, and building healthier patterns in relationships.
The work often includes mindfulness, learning new coping skills, and talking through attachment and relationship dynamics. Dr. Brown views therapy as a partnership.
She helps people set clear, realistic goals and checks in about progress along the way. Practical tools and steady feedback are common parts of her approach. She offers services from Georgia and works with people in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. For those ready to begin, the path is to complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit individual needs.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Dr. Brown commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression.She treats these approaches as tools to be tested together with each person. The therapist and client review what is working and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and how a person responds. This collaborative process aims to find a straightforward mix of skills, reflection, and real-life practice that fits each situation.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text are good for shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers writing instead of speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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