About Debra
Dr. Debra Brown welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to handle big life changes. She writes plainly and listens carefully.
She focuses on helping people find steps that fit their lives and values. Dr. Brown brings a calm, practical presence to conversations about relationships, mood, and coping skills.
With 27 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), she has supported people facing addiction, grief, trauma, and stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with diverse populations and with complex concerns such as bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver strain. She also helps people navigate intimacy issues, communication breakdowns, and career transitions. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small meaningful actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop new coping skills. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening guide conversations about relationships and self-worth.
Sessions are practical and goal-focused. Dr. Brown works with each person to set realistic steps and practice skills between meetings.
She also supports people who want coaching-style guidance for life changes or career moves. Dr. Brown offers services in Georgia and accepts international clients in English.
She holds the credential LCSW and the earlier CSW designation. People can expect straightforward guidance and help making sustainable changes.
How her approach adapts to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. In online sessions this can mean setting real-life experiments between meetings and checking progress by message or video. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new skills; it works well in short focused video sessions and through homework sent by chat.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then recommend ways of working together. Sessions can shift over time if a different method seems more helpful so the plan stays practical and responsive.
Online work offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see and hear one another for deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into tighter schedules. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English