Debbie Harris
Compassionate family-focused counseling
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Debbie
Debbie Harris is an LPC with 25 years in counseling who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of related issues. She offers direct therapy rooted in practical skills and steady support. Parents and caregivers read her work as calm and focused on helping families find clearer communication and healthier routines.
Debbie began pursuing counseling as an undergraduate after a formative experience working in a faith-based sports camp.
Background and approach
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Counseling from Southwest Baptist University and a master’s degree in Community Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy from John Brown University. She later co-founded New Creation Counseling Center in 2001. Through the center, Debbie provided services to abused children and families across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, collaborating with children’s advocacy organizations.
Over the years she developed experience treating trauma, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and related difficulties. She earned a certification in Equine Therapy in 2012 through OK Corral. In 2021 she expanded work into a local school system doing special needs testing and providing therapy to students within the school setting.
More recently she has worked with young women affected by sex trafficking, continuing a long-term commitment to helping people heal. Her approach blends problem-solving tools with goal-focused techniques. Sessions emphasize practical steps parents can try between visits, clearer boundaries, and improved communication techniques tailored to each family’s situation.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Debbie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy, a short-term approach that concentrates on what works now and small steps toward clear goals. This method helps people make concrete changes and track progress in family routines and parenting challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit those priorities. Adjustments happen over time based on what is helpful and practical for the family.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around busy schedules, school responsibilities, and caregiving duties. They also let caregivers and parents use brief check-ins or longer sessions depending on what the situation requires.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point