About Debbie
Debbie Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She offers care for people managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and ADHD. Her approach is warm and faith-informed, shaped by decades working with individuals affected by violence and loss.
Debbie co-founded a counseling center in 2001 that served abused children across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. That work included partnering with children’s advocacy groups to support healing for those harmed by abuse.
Background and approach
She later added equine-assisted methods in 2012 and has worked with school systems on special needs testing and in-school therapy. In recent years she has focused on young women who survived sex trafficking and on caregivers, first responders, and veterans. She uses practical tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage strong emotions.
Sessions often include straightforward strategies and steps a person can try between meetings. Debbie combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people set goals and change unhelpful patterns. She prefers short, goal-oriented work when that fits the person’s needs, and will also support longer-term processing after trauma.
Her practice is based in Oklahoma and she offers therapy in English. People can expect a caring, direct style that aims to make daily life more manageable and restore a sense of hope.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Debbie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and reduce anxiety or mood symptoms through step-by-step practice. Solution-Focused Therapy is also part of her work; it centers on identifying goals and small changes that move someone toward what they want rather than focusing only on the problem.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and together they decide whether short-term, goal-focused work or longer-term processing is the best fit. Adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people send notes, ask quick questions, or continue work between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and for people living in different parts of Oklahoma.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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