Meet The Team

Deborah is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She enjoys helping others manage, process, and deal with their difficulties and hardships in life and finding ways to overcome and heal from these experiences. Deborah has worked with children, teenagers, adults, and couples struggling with trauma, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, grief, loss, and relationship difficulties.

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Deborah’s goal is to help her clients, help themselves, with a very empathetic, loving, compassionate, and non-judgmental approach. Deborah believes that each client deserves a tailor-fit approach that is designed to help their personal journey. She uses an integrative approach to counseling and practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Mindfulness, in her sessions with her clients. Deborah utilizes a variety of techniques to help her clients overcome their struggles, including identifying the thought patterns and cognitive distortions that are contributing to their depression, anxiety, and stress. Deborah also specializes in couples counseling and parenting.

Halima is our assistant helping with maintaining our office and our clinicians calendars. She manages the scheduling of new patients and assists in scheduling existing appointments, making the process easy and efficient.

My passion for serving my community has led me to work with a diverse array of young adults and teens in an individual psychotherapeutic setting. I approach clients with empathy to help develop their self-confidence and community connection to facilitate change on the basis of human connection.

I use a humanistic person-centered approach to allow clients to learn how to express themselves in a nonjudgmental and empathetic space. Self expression and emotional expression gives clients space to gain insight on how to actualize their intrinsic will to change or release what may no longer serve them. Self-awareness in a client can develop in a non-judgemental and empathetic space which I strive to provide during sessions. Learning how to express and feel emotions can be uncomfortable or unusual at first, and with practice in a safe space, we can start to change. 

Sara is our coordinator in charge of verifying insurance coverages, and handling claims and billing items.  She is also responsible for managing our website and social media aspects, as well as the paperwork for our practice.