About Deborah
Deborah Gaudet brings a decade of counseling experience to people seeking steady, hopeful support. She holds an LPCC and practices from Northern New Mexico. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, focused on practical steps that fit day-to-day life.
She uses a mix of approaches, drawing on attachment ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral tools. Sessions often focus on feelings, relationships, and actions people can try between meetings. Deborah frames therapy as a collaborative process where clients set goals and choose the pace.
Background and approach
Her work covers a wide range of concerns. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, and struggles with self-esteem or career transitions. She also supports those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, bipolar mood issues, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue.
Deborah pays attention to life stage challenges and social factors that affect mental health. She acknowledges how income inequality, gender, and racialization shape choices and stresses. That perspective helps when planning realistic, personalized steps toward change.
Her sessions aim to be friendly, practical, and thorough. People can expect clear conversation about emotions, patterns, and small experiments to try outside sessions. Deborah emphasizes ongoing growth and the possibility of change at any age.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape present-day emotions and reactions. It can be useful for people who notice repeating patterns in closeness, trust, or fear of abandonment. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own voice and goals, giving space to be heard and to choose the direction of work; it supports self-exploration and finding internal resources.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will listen to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as new insights or goals emerge.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging give short, timely check-ins and allow people to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still accessing consistent support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English