About Deborah
Deborah Brehm is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 21 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on each person who comes to her, listening first to what feels most urgent. Her approach starts with the client's concerns and builds from there in practical, straightforward steps.
Deborah draws on several therapy styles to meet different needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns. She practices emotionally-focused techniques when feelings and connection are central.
How Deborah works
She also incorporates client-centered and existential perspectives to honor each person's choices and life meaning. People seek Deborah for a wide range of issues. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar.
She also addresses trauma and abuse, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, and career strain. Additional work includes attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care questions, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, and dealing with major life changes. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
Deborah listens for what matters most, helps name patterns, and practices new ways of responding. Conversations include emotional processing and skills that can be used between sessions. Deborah offers multiple online formats and accepts international clients.
Prospective clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How these therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior; online sessions use conversation to identify old patterns and try new ways of connecting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions that drive relationship problems, then practices new emotional responses that build closeness. The Gottman Method offers structured tools for managing conflict and improving communication in relationships through clear exercises and check-ins.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will listen to your goals and preferences and recommend which ideas to emphasize. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change over time.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for emotion-focused work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter reflections, between-session check-ins, and pacing that fits a busy day. These options let people fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while accessing licensed professionals and therapists who use the methods described.
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A practical next step
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