About Deborah
Deborah Bovee is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice in mental health. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and supportive and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Deborah blends several therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and build meaningful action.
How Deborah works
She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to offer a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through hard feelings. Her background includes many years providing mental health services alongside healthcare work. That experience shapes how she supports people facing illness, caregiving stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and aging-related issues.
She also helps with relationship struggles, communication problems, divorce and separation, and recovery from domestic violence. Deborah offers strategies for sleep problems, anger, motivation, career questions, and parenting stress. She works with people dealing with abandonment, shame, guilt, loneliness, and emptiness.
For ADHD she focuses on practical coping skills rather than labels or promises. Sessions are focused on clear goals and small experiments to test what helps. Deborah explains skills simply, teaches exercises people can use between meetings, and adjusts methods as progress is made.
Deborah lists 9 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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Deborah’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where someone wants more meaning and movement. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms and change habits. It often helps with sleep problems, anger, low mood, and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on goals, daily life, and what feels useful. She checks in and shifts techniques if something isn’t working so clients stay engaged and see what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see body language and hold longer sessions. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps someone focus. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic tools Deborah offers in person.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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