About Deborah
Deborah Feingold-Fisher uses a client-centered approach to help people make sense of stress, anxiety, and life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience and focuses on straightforward, practical support. Deborah writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard and understood from the first conversation.
She combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to address negative thinking and unhelpful habits. Mindfulness strategies are used to help people manage anxiety and stay grounded in difficult moments.
How Deborah works
Motivational interviewing supports people who want to improve motivation for change and reach personal goals. Deborah has worked across many settings during a long career and brings that experience to each session. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, and career questions.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, autism and Asperger syndrome, gender dysphoria, intellectual disability, and women’s and young adult issues. Sessions aim to be practical and goal oriented. Deborah helps people build skills for anger management, boost self-esteem, cope with depression, and handle compassion fatigue.
She also offers coaching-style support for career decisions and life transitions. People meet with Deborah by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
She practices in Illinois and provides services in English.
Deborah lists 4 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist reflects what is said, helps people name their feelings, and supports them in making their own choices. This approach is useful for anyone needing a nonjudgmental space to sort through problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to challenge negative thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice the present moment and reduce reactivity through simple attention exercises and breathing practices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick tools that fit a person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not ideal, live chat for quick check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support. Video is good for deeper conversation, phone works with lower bandwidth, chat can be a short check-in, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity even when schedules change.
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