About Debra
Debra Dean is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience. She practices in Florida and brings a practical, solution-oriented focus to sessions. She emphasizes working together with each person to build on their strengths.
She has helped people facing grief and loss, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. She also supports those coping with major life changes and the challenges of aging parents. Her background includes work related to addictions, compassion fatigue, and workplace stress.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and problem-solving. She listens for what matters most to the person and offers ideas that can be tried between sessions. She treats the person as the expert on their own life and uses that knowledge to shape goals.
Debra also has experience with trauma and abuse, narcissistic abuse recovery, intimacy and relationship concerns, and self-esteem work. She works with people concerned about LGBT issues, women's issues, and family of origin patterns. Hospice and end-of-life counseling and intellectual disability are among her additional focus areas.
Clients can expect respectful guidance and practical skills to manage stress and day-to-day challenges. She aims to teach coping tools and to support decision-making during difficult transitions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Debra uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical problem solving and real-life coping. One approach emphasizes clear steps for handling current problems and building skills that reduce stress and improve daily functioning. This helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions.Another common focus is recovery from relationship harm such as narcissistic abuse. Sessions aim to strengthen boundaries, restore self-esteem, and develop safer ways of relating. These techniques are goal-driven and often include homework to practice new responses between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as needed. Together they decide which strategies fit the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English