About DeBora
DeBora Turpin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, and relationship and family concerns. She focuses on practical change and works with clients to build clearer thinking and calmer emotional responses. Her approach aims to help people find what they want and create a plan to reach it.
She uses straightforward techniques to change thought patterns and breathing habits that influence behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, achievable steps so clients can see progress. DeBora describes therapy as collaborative work where goals are set together and tracked over time. DeBora draws on a blend of methods including cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and other approaches to address trauma, grief, and life transitions.
She also incorporates tools that can help with obsessive or compulsive concerns, control issues, and communication problems. The focus is on practical skills that fit into everyday life. Her personal history informs her work.
She has navigated family challenges, childhood trauma, and long-term relationships, and uses that background to empathize with people facing similar struggles. She encourages clients to move from feeling stuck to building the life they want. DeBora works with people across a wide range of issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, substance concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and questions about life purpose.
She aims to help clients uncover strengths and develop a clear path forward.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
DeBora commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR work to address distressing thoughts and memories. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to lower anxiety and improve mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) involves guided processing of traumatic memories to reduce their emotional intensity and the symptoms that follow.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions are collaborative - goals and techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text based messaging. Video lets people meet face to face when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check in is needed. Live chat and text based messaging allow for more frequent, brief exchanges and may fit a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule sessions from different places and to use therapy in a way that fits daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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