About Debra
Dr. Debra Brown welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. She writes in a clear, direct way and aims to make the first step feel manageable.
Dr. Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 27 years of experience and brings a steady, compassionate presence to sessions. She focuses on practical problems that commonly wear people down.
That includes stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, and career strain.
How Debra works
She also helps with issues like ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Her approach mixes evidence-based tools with listening and presence. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that keep people stuck.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice what matters and take values-driven steps. Attachment-informed work helps with relationship patterns and trust. Sessions emphasize clear goals and usable skills.
Clients can expect direct conversation, exercises they can use between meetings, and attention to everyday obstacles like sleep, eating, and managing emotions. The tone is calm, straightforward, and hopeful. Dr.
Brown counsels in English and works with both local and international clients from Georgia. She offers multiple formats for sessions so people can choose what fits their life and schedule. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first meeting.
Debra lists 12 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- 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-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and helping them take small, values-driven steps. It teaches simple exercises for noticing thoughts and staying committed to meaningful actions even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety, depression, and behaviors; it uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationship experiences shape current trust, communication, and intimacy patterns, and it helps people try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That can mean combining approaches or adjusting tools as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or suit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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