Debbie Silva
Supportive, practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Debbie
Debbie Silva is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and relationship or intimacy issues. She greets each person where they are and works to build a trusting relationship so they can talk through what matters most. Sessions emphasize clear listening and respectful guidance rather than labels or lectures.
Debbie uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's experience in the lead.
Background and approach
She listens for each person’s story and helps them find their own next steps. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help manage overwhelm and reduce stress in daily life. Narrative work is part of her practice, helping people reframe difficult memories and make sense of life changes.
That can be useful for coping with trauma, loss, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment difficulties, and other disruptions to a life story. Debbie also brings attention to practical problems like sleep, communication, and caregiver stress. She has six years of clinical experience and holds the LPC credential, license number TX LPC 89397.
Her work includes both one-on-one and group formats delivered through telehealth as well as in-person when appropriate. Sessions are offered in English and organized around what the client needs. Debbie aims to be a steady, compassionate presence while clients make changes.
She supports people working through addictions, compassion fatigue, body image concerns, blended family adjustments, and other life stresses. The focus is on small, manageable steps toward clearer routines and healthier interactions.
How Debbie Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy means the person sets the pace and topics of conversation while the therapist follows with attentive listening and practical reflections. This approach helps when someone feels stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start and values being heard first rather than pushed into a plan.Mindfulness therapy brings simple tools to reduce stress and calm the body and mind. Online sessions may include guided breathing or attention exercises and brief practices to use between appointments for sleep, anxiety, or daily tension.
Narrative therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. In virtual sessions, the therapist helps identify dominant problem stories and then works with the client to highlight strengths, alternative perspectives, and next steps for change.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort with online formats. That process is flexible and revisited as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and reduced travel time. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove the need for cameras, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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