About Deborah
Deborah Coppersmith is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with self-esteem. She talks with clients about coping with life changes, relationship concerns, grief, trauma, and challenges tied to ADHD and bipolar mood patterns. Her style is warm and straightforward and aimed at practical steps people can try between sessions.
Deborah brings 16 years of experience and holds LPC credentials in Arizona and Oregon as well as licensure in Texas.
How Deborah works
She uses a mix of approaches so sessions match what each person needs. That can mean focusing on thoughts and behaviors one week and practicing emotion-regulation skills another week. Her work often addresses deeper patterns like attachment, abandonment, or family of origin issues while also tackling everyday problems such as work stress, parenting strain, or communication breakdowns.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and helps people build clearer boundaries and self-compassion. Sessions move at a realistic pace. Deborah helps set goals, tries small experiments, and checks what is or isn’t working.
She also supports people dealing with career pressure, compassion fatigue, or feelings of emptiness and guilt. Language offered is English and Deborah provides multiple remote session formats. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
Deborah lists 8 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
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on treating the person as the expert on their own life, offering empathy and reflective listening to help clarify values and goals. This approach is helpful for people who want a respectful, exploratory space to make sense of their feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It can be used for anxiety, depression, mood swings, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches emotion-regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It can be especially useful for intense emotions, impulsivity, and improving communication under stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in. Live chat or text messaging can suit shorter updates, skill practice between sessions, or when writing helps someone express themselves. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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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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