About Debra
Debra Konecni, LPC, practices in Arizona and brings seven years of professional counseling experience to her work. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and the ripple effects of trauma and abuse. She aims to make starting therapy straightforward and nonjudgmental for people who are unsure where to begin.
Debra centers conversations on each person’s goals and life context. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to build confidence and healthier habits.
Background and approach
She encourages positive affirmations and helps clients strengthen boundaries and communication skills. Her background emphasizes a mix of approaches that match what a person needs in the moment. That can look like identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new ways to respond in relationships, or building mindful routines to reduce stress.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort level. Debra works with issues ranging from addictions and eating or sleeping problems to relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also addresses parenting stress, grief, anger, ADHD-related challenges, and age-related concerns.
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. She offers support to people across many life situations and adapts tools to fit individual needs. Debra explains options, listens for what matters most, and helps people take small, manageable steps toward change.
How therapy approaches and online sessions work together
Debra uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people. Client-centered work focuses on listening and shaping sessions around the person’s goals, which helps when someone needs support to sort priorities or make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change them, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood shifts.Finding the best approach is a shared process. Debra will talk through options, check what has helped before, and try methods that fit the person’s goals and comfort level. Goals and methods are revisited so adjustments can be made if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to office sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates, get coaching between sessions, or work through small steps without scheduling a full call. These formats give flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences, while keeping the focus on steady, workable progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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