About Deborah
Deborah Tommey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. She works with adults and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Her approach is conversational and centered on each person's goals and values.
She uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's priorities first. Deborah asks what change a person wants and keeps sessions focused on practical steps toward that goal. She also brings mindfulness tools to help with emotion regulation and day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Deborah draws on existential ideas when questions about meaning, purpose, or direction come up. She invites people to look at life choices and what gives their life meaning. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify strengths and concrete small changes that can produce visible progress.
Her background includes a Master of Counseling from Oklahoma State University/Tulsa and about 15 years of work in behavioral health. She has experience running support groups and providing education to other professionals on behavioral health topics. Sessions can include discussion of relationship and intimacy issues, caregiver stress, body image and identity concerns, and end-of-life or hospice-related topics.
She also supports people dealing with hoarding behaviors, communication problems, and guilt or shame. Deborah favors an optimistic, empathetic tone in sessions. She offers phone and video sessions and uses messaging between visits for brief updates or notes.
She encourages people to identify a clear goal and to take small, steady steps toward it.
Approaches and how online therapy can work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and preferences. In practice this means sessions focus on what the client wants to change and the therapist reflects and listens to help clarify priorities. It is useful for building confidence and making decisions about next steps.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and strong emotions. These techniques can help with anxiety, sleep troubles, and moments of overwhelm by training attention to the present moment.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep using.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is well suited to a full session when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can help with quick updates or brief coaching between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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