About Debra
Debra Arseneaux is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with over 21 years of experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She combines therapy and coaching to help clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer goals and daily functioning.
She uses brief, focused care but will extend the plan when needed. Sessions often include learning new skills, practicing ways to manage strong emotions, and setting steps toward personal goals.
Background and approach
The approach balances helping people recover and helping them pursue what matters next. Debra draws on methods that include cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-based strategies, attachment work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. These tools are used to address trauma, intimacy issues, self-esteem, and other areas such as caregiver stress or first responder challenges.
She also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping difficulties and life transitions. Her style is practical and collaborative. She offers coaching-style direction when clients want goal-focused work, and a supportive therapeutic stance for deeper healing.
People can expect direct guidance, skill practice, and an emphasis on real-life changes. Debra works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short online matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How specific approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through practical exercises and homework. This approach often helps with mood, anxiety, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence present relationships and helps people notice patterns that affect intimacy and trust.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the person's needs. Sessions can shift over time if different tools or more coaching-style work are needed, and decisions are made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit therapy into busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English