About Deborah
Deborah Cho is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eleven years of clinical experience. She has provided therapy and crisis intervention across settings in New York, including hospitals, schools, community programs, and a substance use rehabilitation center. Deborah brings steady, practical support to people facing stressful life moments.
Her background includes work in inpatient units, public schools, independent practice, and community-based services. Those varied settings shaped a flexible approach to common struggles like anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addiction, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and questions around identity and self-esteem. In sessions she combines clear listening with straightforward guidance. Deborah uses client-centered and attachment-informed ideas to help people understand patterns that keep them stuck.
She also employs cognitive behavioral and dialectical tools to teach coping skills and manage intense emotions. Therapy with Deborah focuses on small, usable changes. She helps clients notice thought and behavior patterns, build healthier coping strategies, and work through painful memories when ready.
Sessions are interactive and geared toward practical problem solving as well as emotional processing. Deborah speaks English and is comfortable working with clients from diverse backgrounds. She practices from New York and accepts international clients.
Her stated goal is to help people move toward greater calm, clearer choices, and a stronger sense of purpose.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how past hurts affect trust, closeness, and reactions in relationships and supports rebuilding safer ways of relating.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building on each person’s strengths. The therapist follows the client’s pace, offering validation and gentle guidance to help people discover their own solutions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It teaches straightforward strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for better mood and functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Deborah collaborates with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals and preferences, and she adapts methods over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face work and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English