Deborah Devlin, LPCC
Ohio · 25 years in practice
Deborah Devlin is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and a wide range of life challenges.
License and registration
- LPCC, Ohio
- E.0004001-SUPV · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1710069976 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and a wide range of life challenges. She works with individuals across the lifespan and supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, career transitions, ADHD, and questions about intimacy and self-esteem.
Deborah writes plainly and focuses on practical steps to help people move forward in their lives. Her background includes work in outpatient clinics, hospitals, disaster response teams, and home-based programs.
Background and approach
She has provided services overseas for military members and their families and has experience with group work as well as individual therapy. Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Akron and a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University.
She also earned a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing a doctorate at Walden University, with dissertation research on post-traumatic growth and military members. In sessions she uses a client-centered stance, listening first and then offering practical tools that fit each person’s situation.
Her methods draw on cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and emotionally-focused therapy to address emotional patterns and improve daily coping. Motivational interviewing and systems concepts inform how she helps with change. Deborah aims for straightforward work that people can use between meetings.
She encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on measurable steps toward goals. The overall aim is to help people find healthier ways to handle emotions, relationships, and life transitions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Deborah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Deborah names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the role of emotions in relationships and personal patterns. In brief online work, EFT ideas help people notice patterns of emotional reaction and practice new ways of responding that reduce distress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take small actions that matter to them. ACT techniques online often include simple exercises to notice thoughts, accept difficult feelings, and choose value-driven steps between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current patterns. Online sessions use this perspective to identify recurring interaction styles and to try small changes in how a person relates to others and to themselves.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what is working.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can keep progress moving between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Deborah commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping issues, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and practical, combining listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and emotionally-focused therapy.
What is her professional background?
She has 25 years of experience working in outpatient settings, hospitals, disaster teams, home-based programs, and overseas with military members and their families.
What credentials and location information are on file?
She is listed as an LPCC and practices in Ohio.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
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