About Deborah
Deborah Thoennes is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. She approaches each person with respect and compassion and focuses on practical steps for everyday life. Deborah aims to make the first step feel doable and supportive for a worried parent or an individual under strain.
Her work is straightforward and personalized. Conversations are shaped around what matters to the client, and treatment plans are adjusted to fit real-life needs and routines.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to address motivation, self-esteem, confidence, and coping with big life changes. Deborah draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are used to increase awareness and reduce reactivity in stressful moments. She brings a long history of working with trauma and grief, and she supports people facing career strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Deborah also helps those dealing with relationship and communication problems and with mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged to meet each person’s schedule. Deborah works from Wisconsin and designs plans that fit daily life, so gains can translate into the home and workplace. Taking that first step can feel hard, and she aims to offer steady support along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and values. It gives space for people to lead the conversation while the therapist listens, reflects, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach often helps when someone needs a grounded, steady space to sort out feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is practical and skills-based. It helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and teaches strategies to change behavior and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. This approach is useful for tackling day-to-day problems and building routines that support focus and mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that match the concern, and adjust plans as progress is made. Clients and the therapist work together to choose what feels most useful in session and in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face-to-face while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or when a written conversation is preferable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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