About Deborah
Deborah LaBounty is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings ten years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Deborah aims to make beginning therapy less intimidating and supports clients through early steps in care.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful or confusing emotions. Deborah listens closely to what matters to each person and tailors conversations to meet immediate needs.
Background and approach
That can include practical coping skills or talking through relationship and family concerns. Her approach combines client-centered work with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses existential ideas to help people find meaning during life transitions and EMDR for processing trauma when appropriate.
Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on small, workable steps toward those goals. Deborah is comfortable addressing intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and identity concerns, including LGBT-related challenges. She also supports people facing grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and addiction recovery tasks.
People who do best with Deborah tend to want clear, practical tools alongside open, empathetic listening. She encourages collaboration on goals and checks in regularly to adjust the plan. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make each session feel manageable and focused.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It involves open-ended conversation and reflection so clients feel heard and can lead the pace of work. This is useful when people need to sort out feelings or make choices in difficult situations.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It includes simple exercises and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches practical tools for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and clearer communication that can reduce conflict and impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy with Deborah uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English