About Deborah
Deborah Goza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 19 years of professional experience. She keeps her approach direct and practical, using therapy that makes sense and feels doable. She treats people with respect and compassion and focuses on clear goals and measurable progress.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and ADHD. She also helps with parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating issues, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
She emphasizes tools that help clients see situations more clearly and act on their goals. Deborah begins by helping people learn more about themselves. She explains how subconscious patterns shape behavior and works to bring those patterns into awareness.
With that insight, clients can make intentional changes rather than repeating old habits. Her methods combine evidence-based techniques with a person-centered stance. Deborah uses cognitive-behavioral ideas alongside acceptance-oriented and mindfulness practices, and she incorporates emotionally-focused and psychodynamic perspectives when useful.
The focus stays on practical steps and steady progress. She individualizes treatment to match each person’s needs, preferences, and goals. Sessions aim to identify priorities, set manageable targets, and track progress.
Deborah encourages people to take the first step and offers steady support through the change process.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and collaboration so people feel heard while they set and reach their goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will discuss what you want to achieve and which methods feel most comfortable. Together you’ll try approaches and adjust the plan based on how well they meet your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging lets you check in between appointments or have shorter, focused conversations. These options make scheduling easier and support consistent work toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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