About Deborah
Deborah (Debbie) Dobbins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Debbie aims to listen first and build goals with each person she meets.
Debbie keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. She treats people with dignity and looks for the practical steps that help day-to-day life. Humor and warmth may appear in sessions when it helps ease tension.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on trauma and abuse, depression, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people facing parenting pressures and family conflict. Topics like abandonment, forgiveness, guilt, and self-esteem are part of her focus.
Debbie uses approaches that encourage the person’s strengths and input. She values the person as the expert on their own experience and works together to set clear, realistic goals. Sessions are collaborative and aim for progress that fits each person’s life.
Debbie earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and holds MS LCSW C9669 and TX LCSW 115274. She sees people remotely from Texas and conducts sessions in English. Her background includes work with adoption, foster care, and blended family situations.
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Debbie uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person’s story and priorities. That means sessions begin with listening and asking what matters most, then shaping goals together. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood before taking next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT offers practical techniques for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes, such as simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and small behavioral experiments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Debbie collaborates with people to decide what fits their needs and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts methods so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy with her can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can support brief check-ins, and messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Texas
- Languages
- English