About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She listens without judgment and helps parents and individuals figure out next steps. Her approach is straightforward and action-oriented, aimed at reducing stress and improving daily functioning.
She draws on methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas inform how she talks about relationships and connection. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for managing intense emotions and building tolerance for distress. Deborah trained in social work and then earned a master’s degree in community counseling.
She also holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing a doctorate, with dissertation research on post-traumatic growth and military members. Her long career includes work in outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, home-based programs, and overseas with military populations. In sessions she uses clear tools such as motivational interviewing and systems thinking to help people set realistic goals.
She can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addiction concerns, sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, and career stress. The focus is on small, manageable changes that add up over time. People who choose her often want practical strategies paired with an empathic listener.
She offers individual and group work experience and aims to help each person move forward in ways that feel meaningful and doable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Deborah commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify values and take small actions toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work with each person to see which ideas fit their goals and daily life. That collaboration means deciding together whether to emphasize skills practice, values-based action, or exploring attachment and relationship patterns.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and guided skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, homework check-ins, and flexible communication between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit consistent work into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- 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
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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