About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is an Ohio-based counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life transitions. Deborah aims to help clients build skills that make everyday life easier and more manageable.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and change how they respond to difficult thoughts and feelings.
How Deborah works
Deborah also uses acceptance and commitment principles to help individuals clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values. Over her career she has worked in outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, and home-based programs. She has experience working overseas with military-affiliated populations and has focused research on post-traumatic growth.
Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Akron and a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University. She also earned a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing a doctorate at Walden University. Sessions blend practical skill building with attention to personal history and relationships.
Deborah helps people address concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, career stress, sleep and eating issues, and attention-related challenges. She emphasizes steady progress and realistic steps toward healthier routines. Her counseling style is warm and direct.
People who prefer clear goals and tools to use between sessions often find this approach helpful. Deborah encourages small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
Deborah lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take committed steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning; it often includes homework and practical skill practice. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental listening stance that helps people feel heard and supported while they explore their goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That collaboration helps shape session plans and the kinds of exercises used between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins and flexibility for shorter updates or coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress consistent over time.
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