About Deborah
Deborah Abram helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She supports clients dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood issues, and struggles around purpose or isolation. Deborah's style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Deborah is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, licensed in Florida and New Hampshire.
How Deborah works
She brings 22 years of experience to sessions and adapts her approach to each person’s needs. She describes her work as eclectic, using tools from different methods rather than a single rigid system. In sessions she draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the client's own goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Mindfulness and dialectical skills appear in her toolkit for managing strong emotions and staying present. Deborah also integrates motivational interviewing when people want to make lasting changes.
She has experience supporting people through caregiving stress, aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life conversations, codependency, and domestic violence recovery. She can also address panic attacks and mood disorders. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, with messaging used between live contacts rather than as the only format.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Deborah lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Deborah works with
The areas below are the ones Deborah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Deborah commonly uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on what matters to the person. This approach means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's lead to identify goals and next steps.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to see what helps. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. She adjusts the plan over time based on what is helping and what feels workable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins suit messaging or chat. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity between live contacts.
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