About Deborah
Deborah Gullatt is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with three decades of clinical experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addictions, or the everyday strain of parenting and career pressures. She also supports people coping with ADHD, relationship struggles, and life changes.
Deborah uses a straightforward, respectful approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Deborah keeps sessions practical and focused on real goals.
Background and approach
She asks about what is most pressing, then works with each person to build steps they can try between meetings. Her work draws on client-centered principles that prioritize the person’s values and pace. That means the client’s experience guides the plan rather than a one-size-fits-all script.
She combines cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness practices are offered when they fit a person’s needs to increase moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. These methods are explained in plain terms and practiced together in session.
Deborah has worked with trauma, attachment concerns, impulse control, obsessive problems, panic, personality challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also assists people dealing with blended family stress, caregiver strain, and recovery after domestic violence or disasters. Her perspective is steady and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on small, achievable changes.
People who choose her can expect clear goal-setting, straightforward tools, and ongoing review of what helps. Sessions aim to leave clients with practical strategies for day-to-day life and a clearer sense of direction.
Approaches and working online
Deborah uses client-centered therapy to make sessions match the person’s priorities. This approach focuses on listening, understanding, and helping clients set goals at their own pace. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort out thoughts and choices.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical strategies to change reactions and behavior. That approach often helps with anxiety, depression, panic, and problems like obsessive thinking.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Deborah discusses options with each person and adjusts techniques based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. The process is collaborative and paced to the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are handy for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping the focus on practical skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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