Deborah Cho
Supportive LCSW helping people find balance and coping skills
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Deborah
Deborah Cho is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience. She grew up in New York and has practiced in hospitals, community programs, public schools, substance use rehab, and independent practice. Deborah draws on a mix of approaches but often uses cognitive-behavioral methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions are interactive and focused on practical steps. She helps people notice patterns, try new coping skills, and make choices that fit their values.
Background and approach
Deborah commonly supports people managing stress, anxiety, bipolar symptoms, depression, addiction, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns related to relationships, family, self-esteem, career, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, adoption and foster care, aging concerns, and communication problems.
In sessions she blends Client-Centered Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy depending on the need. That mix allows her to address emotions, behavior, and relationships together. Deborah aims to help people process past hurt while building new skills for day-to-day life.
She offers services from New York and conducts sessions in English. Deborah accepts international clients and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape trust and safety in current relationships. Online work with this approach helps people notice patterns in connection and try new ways of relating in their day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Deborah listens to a client's goals and preferences and explains which methods might help most. She adapts techniques over time so the work fits the person's pace and needs, and checks in regularly about what is and isn't helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions offer an audio option when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, ongoing contact between sessions and can help practice skills in real time. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional work.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English
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