About Deborah
Deborah Devlin helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start. She meets people where they are and focuses on small, practical steps that make daily life easier. Deborah is an LPCC with 25 years of experience and works with people across a wide range of concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. She listens first to understand what matters most, then offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based methods.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple skill practice, problem-solving, and checking what changes are actually helping. Deborah brings experience from outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, home-based programs, and work overseas with military communities. That background shaped a flexible style that adapts to different needs and life stages.
She has worked with individuals, youth, and groups on both mental health and addiction concerns. Her academic path includes a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Akron and a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University. She also holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing doctoral research on post-traumatic growth and military populations.
In sessions she draws on attachment-focused ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation is needed. The aim is to build coping skills, restore day-to-day functioning, and help people move forward toward meaningful goals.
How Deborah’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Deborah commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. ACT helps people clarify values and take meaningful steps even when thoughts and feelings are difficult. CBT focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will listen to goals, try methods that fit the person, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed and tailored to each person's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and do skill practice together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between in-depth sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English