About Debra
Debra Grollman is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on relationship concerns, self-esteem, career challenges, coaching, stress, anxiety, family issues, and grief. She talks plainly and meets people where they are.
She uses a client-centered approach that places the person's experience at the center of sessions. That means conversations are led by the client's needs and concerns, and she adapts her pacing and style to suit each person.
How Debra works
Sessions often focus on building confidence, restoring motivation, and managing stress in day-to-day life. Her background includes work with professionals seeking career guidance and executive coaching. She helps people sort career decisions, clarify goals, and build strategies to manage workplace stress.
She also supports those dealing with family of origin issues, adoption and foster care related concerns, and challenges linked to aging. Debra brings a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate manner to her work. She takes time to tailor the dialogue and the plan to what each person actually needs.
The emphasis is on practical steps and steady progress rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. To get started she encourages the first small step of signing up and beginning the conversation. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the early sessions focused and manageable.
Over time she helps people strengthen self-love, repair relationships, and move toward clearer decision-making.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Client-centered care delivered online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's perspective and priorities. Sessions concentrate on listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and helping the client set their own goals. This approach is helpful for relationship struggles, self-esteem work, career decisions, and managing stress and anxiety.Working out the best approach happens together. The therapist will offer options and adapt them based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps shape session pace, whether someone needs coaching-style guidance or gentler emotional support.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to create flexibility. Video calls are good when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflection, or people who prefer writing things out. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on the client's goals and progress.
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