About Debra
Debra Arseneaux is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years of experience. She has run a independent practice and worked as an executive coach, helping people during difficult transitions and toward clear goals. Debra combines therapy and coaching to meet different needs and preferences.
She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, addictions, body image or eating concerns, sleep problems, and career or life-purpose questions.
How Debra works
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, and first responder concerns. Debra draws on several approaches in her work, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). In practical terms she offers tools for managing emotions, building healthier patterns, and setting values-based goals.
Sessions blend direct skill teaching with time to process feelings. She describes her style as both reactive and proactive - helping people recover and helping them move forward toward goals. Debra tends to work from a brief therapy model but will extend the plan when needed and agreed upon.
Her aim is to help people move out of feeling stuck and toward meaningful change. Based in Texas, Debra offers support in English and accepts international clients. She frames therapy as a collaboration and focuses on what will best meet each person's needs.
Debra lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Debra works with
The areas below are the ones Debra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Debra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take action toward what matters, even when strong emotions are present. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.She also applies Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand trust, connection, and recurring relationship difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend an approach or mix of approaches. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for focused check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options aim to make regular care easier to schedule and maintain while matching the way a person prefers to communicate.
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