About Deborah
Deborah Tommey is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and challenges tied to caregiving and aging. She works with people on relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, LGBTQ issues, hoarding, and life transitions. Deborah prefers clear, straightforward conversations and asks what difference a person wants to make in their life.
She trained at Oklahoma State University/Tulsa and has practiced for 15 years. That experience includes running support groups and providing education for other behavioral health professionals.
Background and approach
She brings practical tools and conversational support rather than clinical jargon. Deborah uses a person-centered stance that keeps the client's goals central. She blends solution-focused ideas and existential questions to help people find meaning and practical change.
Mindfulness techniques are offered when helpful to manage anxiety, sleep problems, or stress. In sessions she encourages autonomy and gentle self-examination. She often asks straightforward questions about values and what someone wants to change next.
That simple approach helps keep work focused and manageable between visits. Deborah offers video and phone sessions and uses messaging between appointments for brief check-ins. She prefers working with adults age 20 and older and brings a calm, hopeful tone to conversations about difficult topics.
Approach and online therapy options
Deborah blends client-centered work with solution-focused and mindfulness approaches to support change. Client-centered therapy means the conversation centers on the person's needs and goals, and the therapist listens deeply to help people clarify what matters. Solution-focused work zeroes in on practical steps and small changes that move someone toward their goals. Mindfulness techniques teach simple breathing and attention practices to ease anxiety, improve sleep, and reduce stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Deborah collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and everyday life. She checks in as work continues and adjusts the plan based on what helps the most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging works well for short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English