About Debra
Debra Vaughan is a licensed professional counselor with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers straightforward support for issues like trauma, addiction, ADHD, relationship concerns, grief, and parenting strain. Debra aims to make therapy practical and understandable for worried parents and busy adults.
Her style is calm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then suggests small, concrete steps that fit a person's life and schedule. Many clients work on sleep, eating habits, anger, or building self-esteem while also handling career and intimacy challenges. Debra uses several common approaches to tailor care to each person.
She draws from client-centered methods to keep the session focused on the person's goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps pinpoint unhelpful thoughts and replace them with healthier ones. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for emotion regulation when feelings feel overwhelming.
She also uses narrative and solution-focused work to help people retell difficult experiences and find next steps that actually work. That combination can be helpful after trauma or during a major life transition. Debra supports people through compassion fatigue and coaching goals as well.
Debra holds an LPC license in Oklahoma and conducts sessions in English. She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person's goals at the center of each session and focuses on listening, understanding, and responding to what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs a safe, steady space to talk through parenting stress, grief, or self-esteem work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and managing ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers short, practical tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance that can be practiced between appointments to reduce intense reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative process means methods may shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and a quieter spot are available. Phone sessions require less data and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a parent's or worker's routine and to keep steady progress over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English