About Debra
Debra Struzinski is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Connecticut. She brings 24 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Debra uses straightforward language and focuses on helping people take practical steps toward better daily functioning and healthier relationships.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings.
How Debra works
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build more effective coping skills. Debra works with issues that often overlap in real life, such as parenting strain, grief, addictions, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also addresses concerns like self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related struggles, and career stress.
Additional areas she supports include adoption and foster care matters, postpartum depression, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. Her background includes work with people facing compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and complex relationship challenges like divorce and communication breakdowns. Debra is attentive to shame, guilt, forgiveness, and the search for life purpose, and she helps people weigh practical next steps.
Sessions are offered in English and take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability through the Start Therapy process.
Debra lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Debra commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name what matters most so they can move forward at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and then builds concrete skills to change behavior and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining listening-focused work with practical CBT exercises, or bringing in motivational interviewing techniques when someone is weighing a change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping tools between sessions, or for people who prefer written communication. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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