About Debbie
Debbie Esque is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with two decades of practice. She focuses on clear, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her style is caring and direct, aimed at helping clients make changes that matter in daily life.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core method, working with clients to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Sessions emphasize straightforward feedback and skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Debbie aims to build a strong working relationship first, so goals are clear and realistic. Her experience spans many challenges including ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and career stress. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care matters, autism-related challenges, blended family questions, and end-of-life concerns.
Debbie draws on a long clinical background to tailor practical steps to each person’s needs. Debbie keeps sessions focused and solution-minded while remaining empathetic. She listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and suggests small experiments clients can try.
The goal is to reduce distress, improve daily functioning, and increase confidence in handling problems. She practices in North Carolina as an LCMHC and offers a variety of online formats. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's timing.
CBT-based Online Care and Flexible Session Options
Debbie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying new actions that can reduce anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.She pairs that practical method with a straightforward, conversational approach. Together the client and therapist set goals, try small experiments between sessions, and adjust strategies based on what works. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process and she will help tailor methods to each person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New Jersey, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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