About Deborah
Deborah Margerum is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 25 years of experience helping people facing difficult life moments. She draws on long personal and professional experience with addiction and recovery to offer steady, practical guidance. She focuses on addictions, relationship challenges, family conflict, and intimacy-related issues.
She also helps people cope with major life changes and struggles around control. Deborah pays particular attention to issues that often affect women and supports clients working through those concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and solution-minded. Deborah helps people identify patterns, try new behaviors, and build stronger habits for everyday life. Conversations are geared toward concrete steps people can use between sessions.
Her style is calm and direct. She balances empathy with clear feedback and practical tools. People who prefer a down-to-earth, steady approach often find this method helpful.
Deborah practices in Oklahoma as an LPC, bringing decades of clinical experience to each appointment. She offers several online formats to fit different schedules, and she works with each person to shape a plan that fits their goals and daily life.
Practical approaches and online care
Deborah uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful habits and improving relationships. One approach emphasizes skills and behavior change to reduce addictive behaviors and build healthier routines; it helps people manage cravings and replace risky habits with safer choices. Another approach concentrates on communication and relationship patterns, teaching concrete ways to improve intimacy, set boundaries, and resolve recurring conflicts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah works with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most. She aims to keep therapy practical and goal-focused while respecting each person's pace and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited, chat or text are useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to schedule regular appointments and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English