- CBT techniques
- Mindfulness practice
- Narrative work
About Deborah
Deborah Boye is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LMHP) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience in Arkansas. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and concerns such as guilt and shame.
She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. Deborah uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also uses narrative and solution-focused tools to clarify values and small next steps.
In sessions she talks through what led to the current struggle and what keeps it going. She helps people name feelings tied to family, faith, work, or parenting and then finds concrete ways to respond differently. Work might include short experiments, thought records, grounding practices, or rewriting a difficult story about oneself.
Deborah has experience supporting older adults, caregivers, and young professionals facing workplace and life transitions. She also helps people dealing with caregiver stress, cancer-related challenges, aging issues, and career frustrations.
Her approach aims to reduce isolation and improve communication skills. People often focus on managing anger, building self-esteem, clarifying life purpose, and working through forgiveness or codependency patterns. Sessions are offered in English and based in Arkansas.
How Deborah uses therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Deborah often blends cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness in her work. CBT helps people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with short exercises and thought records. Mindfulness practices focus on present-moment awareness and simple grounding methods to reduce reactivity and increase calm.She also integrates narrative therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. That approach is useful for guilt, shame, and self-esteem work because it clarifies which parts of a life story are changeable and which are not. These methods are used to set small, practical goals together rather than offering fixed prescriptions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Deborah will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
The original biography did not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into daily life by removing travel time, offering shorter check-ins when needed, or accommodating work and caregiving schedules. Licensed professionals can use these formats to keep continuity of care while focusing on skills practice, communication work, and experimentation between sessions.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
Nebraska, Arkansas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and areas like guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses cognitive behavioral and narrative techniques to help people name the beliefs behind those feelings and try small experiments that test unhelpful thoughts.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of experience working with adults, including older adults, caregivers, and young professionals.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LMHP and LPC credentials, listed as NE LMHP and AR LPC, and is based in Arkansas.
Does she provide services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Session formats were not specified in the provided biography, so confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.