About Deborah
Deborah Sharp focuses on people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or depression. She greets each person with respect and warmth. Her approach aims to make small, doable changes that help day-to-day life feel steadier.
Deborah is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Oklahoma with five years of experience. She creates short-term goals and longer-term plans based on what a person wants to change. Sessions are conversational and grounded in practical tools rather than jargon.
How Deborah works
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies help people notice sensations and emotions without getting stuck in them. Skills from dialectical behavior therapy provide coping tools for intense feelings and crises.
Deborah also draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s priorities in the lead. She listens closely and adapts pacing and exercises to match each person’s comfort. The plan evolves as progress is made.
Her areas of focus include trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and body image concerns, grief and loss, and difficulties with attachment or relationship patterns. She also helps people handle caregiver stress, communication problems, codependency, and life transitions like divorce or separation. Deborah frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She supports people through steady steps toward clearer choices, healthier coping, and more confidence in daily life.
Deborah lists 10 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Deborah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT focuses on simple exercises and behavioral experiments that can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression over time.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, which helps people clarify values and take action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. ACT is useful for managing stress, grief, and problems that recur despite previous efforts.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. Deborah will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints and then try approaches that match those needs. She adjusts methods as progress is observed and as the person’s priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work moving forward.
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