About Deborah
Deborah Gaudet is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with ten years of experience. She practices from New Mexico and brings a hopeful, down-to-earth stance to therapy. Deborah focuses on practical change while honoring each person's life story and strengths.
She holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. Her work blends attention to emotions, relationships, and the patterns that shape behavior. Deborah uses approaches that look at attachment, feelings, and thoughts to help people make shifts that matter.
How Deborah works
Sessions tend to be warm and straightforward. Deborah listens closely, helps name what is happening, and suggests ways to try things differently. She often combines short-term strategies with deeper reflection so people can manage stress now and build new habits over time.
Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, intimacy-related issues, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and career changes. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image and eating concerns, and challenges around identity and attachment. Deborah recognizes the effects of social and economic forces on mental health.
She factors those realities into treatment plans and practical decisions. Clients who want a collaborative, compassionate clinician who balances emotional work with actionable steps may find her style a good fit.
Deborah lists 12 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
How Deborah's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help people notice attachment patterns, practice new ways of relating, and reduce isolation around intimacy or caregiving stress.Client-centered work puts the person and their experience at the center. In this approach the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace, helping people find their own solutions for stress, self-esteem, or life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. It uses clear steps and exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits, which can be practiced between sessions during video or text check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She invites feedback and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging fit quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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