Areas of Service:

• Depression Management: Relief from malaise, concentration problems, negative outlook, low motivation, helplessness, sadness, and other symptoms of depression.
• General Women’s Issues:  Self-esteem, finding outlets and friends for connection, career issues, feminine/masculine balance, mother/daughter issues, parenting, spirituality, health/hormonal problems, etc.
• Anxiety Management: Relief from trauma, panic, phobias, obsessions, stress, and other situations causing hard-to-control anxiety.
• Weight Control: Strategies in the areas of motivation, fitness, nutrition, and self-regard that can result in a healthier body and self-image.
• Body Image Enhancement: Relief from self-loathing and relationship issues resulting from a negative regard for your body.
• Smoking Cessation: Strategies to finally stop the nasty habit that isn’t cool anymore.
• Relationship Therapy: Couples therapy including communication training, issues resolution, and sex therapy. Individual therapy, including relationship search, starting over after a painful relationship loss, and coaching for a problem relationship.
• Women’s Sex Therapy: Education and therapy for women’s sex issues, such as low libido, sex aversion, orgasm dysfunction, painful intercourse, and hormonal changes.
• Grief Management: Supportive and expressive therapy for dealing with a significant loss.
• Creativity Enhancement: Strategies to tap into deep resources for creative projects and relief from creative blocks.

Methods: Used in various combinations, depending on the problem and desires of each client.

• Insight-oriented therapy: Exploration of earlier and/or recent troubling events and the feeling and meaning attached to them to help increase peace and understanding.
• Hypnotherapy: Eyes-open techniques, neuro-linquistic programming, formal trance, self-hypnosis/meditation instruction, and individualized recorded audiotapes to help elevate personal consciousness and gain relief of troubling perceptions.
• Dream Interpretation: Deciphering symbolic messages from the unconscious contained in nighttime dreaming for insight and guidance in personal issues.
• Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Direct focus on changing thoughts, beliefs, and actions that are contributing to depression, anxiety, and poor coping.
• Values Clarification: The identification of “what’s important” as an impetus for change and motivation.
• Personal Coaching: Goal-setting and action planning for lifestyle changes, career enhancement, and balance.
• Psycho-education: Use of educational handouts, videos, and verbal instruction for various mental health issues.
• Mars-Venus Orientation: Understanding of the difference in feminine and masculine energy and how it reflects in relationship dynamics, based primarily on the works of Dr. John Gray.
• Communication Training: Instruction and practice of intimate communication strategies that will serve to enhance the loving aspect of relationships while creating safety and intimacy.
• Expressive Therapy: Use of creative media such as artwork, writing, active imagination, and such to enhance insight and personal growth.
• Individual Nature Connection: Exercises carried out in nature to utilize the natural healing power of the wilderness environment.
• Group Therapy: Held periodically with various themes, such as body image support, self-esteem, relationship support, and general issues.
• Wilderness Seminars: Held periodically as a weekend retreat for nature-lovers.
• Community Resources: Assistance in locating support groups, alternative therapies, specialists, in-patient treatment facilities, etc.

Deborah is a talented group leader and speaker, and would enjoy presenting to your group.

Contact Deborah directly for clarification of any elements of her practice.