About Deborah
Deborah Goza offers straightforward, practical counseling rooted in approaches that help people set goals and make change. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. Deborah speaks plainly and focuses on therapy that makes sense for everyday life.
She often begins by helping clients learn more about themselves. That can mean looking at habits, beliefs, and patterns that run below conscious awareness. Gaining that insight makes it easier to set realistic goals and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Deborah uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral and client-centered therapy along with mindfulness and emotionally focused ideas when these fit the situation. She blends methods to match what each person needs instead of using a single fixed model. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and parenting challenges.
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, anger, intimacy-related issues, and work or career stress. Additional areas Deborah addresses include ADHD, body image, communication problems, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and coping with major life changes. She aims to help people identify goals, practice new skills, and notice gradual progress.
Deborah frames therapy as a collaborative process. She tailors conversations and plans to each person and encourages small steps toward clearer thinking and healthier functioning.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Deborah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and anger. She also uses client-centered therapy, offering empathic listening and collaborative goal setting so people feel heard and can build plans that fit their lives. These methods can be mixed with mindfulness techniques to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will talk with each person about needs and preferences, then try methods that match their goals. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time if something is not working as hoped.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and have longer, deeper sessions. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, coaching-style exchanges, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English