Deborah Devlin
Support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Deborah
Deborah Devlin is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable for busy, worried parents. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, with a focus on clear next steps rather than jargon.
Deborah uses a client-centered stance that keeps family needs at the center of conversations. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help families clarify values and take workable actions. Her background includes outpatient work, hospital settings, disaster response teams, and home-based programs. She has worked overseas with military members and their families and has experience supporting youth, adults, and groups facing mental health and addiction challenges.
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. Deborah also earned a master’s degree in philosophy and is completing doctoral work at Walden University, with dissertation research on post-traumatic growth and military members. That mix of practical experience and academic study shapes a thoughtful, flexible approach.
In sessions she talks through realistic steps, offers tools families can try between meetings, and adjusts the plan as needs change. The goal is steady progress toward better family routines, clearer communication, and more confidence in parenting choices.
How Deborah Brings Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Deborah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help families spot unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that make a big difference. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and parenting patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values and take small committed actions even when feelings are hard. ACT can help with stress, grief, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will talk with each family about goals and preferences and then recommend what to try first. She treats the choice as a collaboration and adjusts approaches based on what is or is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Sessions can be done by video calls, by phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging to fit family schedules. That flexibility makes it easier to keep continuity of care, try brief check-ins between sessions, and practice new skills in real life while getting timely feedback from a licensed professional.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Deborah
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point