About Deborah
Deborah Tiger is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oklahoma. She brings seven years of counseling experience and focuses on helping people manage trauma, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Deborah aims to make the first step toward help feel less daunting and more doable for each person who reaches out.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful memories and hard feelings. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
Background and approach
Deborah listens, reflects, and helps clients identify small steps they can try between sessions to feel more in control. Her approach blends several methods so care fits the person, not a protocol. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and move toward what matters.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. Mindfulness and client-centered ideas shape how she works in the room. That means attention to the present moment and a focus on the client’s goals.
Narrative techniques can help people make sense of difficult experiences and rewrite how those events fit into their life story. Deborah also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, grief, and issues around identity and relationships. She pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, abandonment wounds, and communication breakdowns.
Her style is steady, empathetic, and goal-oriented, aimed at helping clients build skills they can use day to day.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters and take small actions toward those values, even when strong emotions are present. It is useful for life changes, grief, and ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness, which supports people coping with trauma and chronic stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean trying one approach for a while and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video is useful when visual connection helps work through feelings. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be a brief check-in between sessions or a way to communicate when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while keeping care consistent.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English