Hi, I'm Deborah.
I believe healing relationships with others starts with healing the relationship with yourself. Healing happens within loving, trusting, and accepting relationships.
I’m no different from the clients I see, and like everyone else, I'm human. After numerous significant losses in mylife, I began to see how my difficult childhood experiences were affecting my present life. I was disconnected from my true self and kept repeating patterns with myself and with others.
Seeking my own therapy and with very skilled therapists, I resolved my past traumas which in turn allowed me to change my relational patterns and have deeper trust and compassion within myself. Therapy changed my life and it's my life's passion to bring the tools and extensive trainings I've learned to others so they can have profound change in their lives
- Master of Counseling in Marriage and Family Therapy with honors
- Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts
- Provided therapy in schools and community programs to help students with mood/anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts, sex trafficking, emotion regulation, trauma, and life transitions.
- Extensive experience working with adolescents, adults, and military members with eating disorders, PTSD & mental health issues in both residential facilities and private practices.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Somatic Experiencing®
- BrainSpotting
- IFS - Internal Family Systems
- Ego State Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- DBT - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Certifications and Trainings
- EMDR Intensives - Dr Hart (2024)
- Internal Family Systems - Frank Anderson (2024)
- Complex Trauma & Dissociation - Kathy Steele (2024)
- BrainSpotting 1 & 2 (2024)
- CSTS Eating Disorder, Addiction & Shame (2024)
- Finding Meaning in Loss - D. Kessler (2024)
- EMDR Approved Consultant (2024)
- IFS - Dr Rothman (2023)
- At the Crossroads of Trauma - Rachel Walker (2023)
- IFS Foundations - Dr Hart (2023)
- Evolutionary Playground Coaching - Hendricks (2023)
- Body Intelligence Advance Coaching Hendricks (2023)
- EMDR Flash, Bomb & Adv. (2022)
- Somatic Resilience (2022)
- EMDR & IFS - Dr Hart (2022)
- Sexual Trauma Somatic Experiencing - A. Garretto (2022)
- Somatic of Emotions - K. Kain (2022)
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Certification (2022)
- Somatic Experiencing ADV l & ll (2022)
- Somatic Experiencing Int I, II & III (2021)
- Somatic Interventions Complex Trauma (2021)
- Certified Grief and Loss Counselor (2021)
- Embodying The Unspoken Self (2021)
- Certified Trauma Clinical Counselor (2021)
- Somatic Experiencing Beg I, II & III (2020)
- Ego State & EMDR - R. Shapiro (2020)
- EMDR & Dissociation D. Mosquera (2019)
- EMDR, Positive Psychology & Coaching (2019)
- Energy Psychology (2019)
- EMDR & Somatic Interventions (2019)
- Breath Work Meditation Level 1, 2, & 3 (2019)
- EMDR Consultation in-training (2019)
- Polyvagal Theory (2018)
- EMDR Ego State Work Adv (2018)
- Internal Family Systems (2018)
- EMDR and Spiritual Trauma (2018)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship (2017)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy Core Skills (2017)
- EMDR Certification (2017)
- EMDR Trained Levels 1 & 2 (2016)
- DBT Beg & Adv (2015)
- Mindfulness & Compassion (2015)
- Solution Focused Therapy (2014)
Are you ready to get back on track?
Your transformation is here for you!