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Deborah Brehm, LPC

  • Experience21 years
  • LocationGeorgia
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Family, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Deborah

Deborah Brehm is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 21 years of clinical experience. She brings a trauma-informed perspective and a client-centered orientation to her work, drawing on multiple therapeutic traditions to support people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, depression, bipolar disorder, and caregiving strains.

Background and approach

Deborah’s background includes focused study in psychological trauma and extensive practice with individuals, children, teens, couples, and families, and she integrates that experience into care tailored to each person’s needs. Her therapeutic style emphasizes understanding the person in context - sometimes centering individual experience, other times exploring dynamics within partnerships or family systems.

Deborah uses approaches such as Internal Family Systems, Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused methods, client-centered principles, and existential perspectives to address issues like intimacy, parenting, attachment concerns, grief, anger, and life transitions. She also works with challenges tied to adoption and foster care, blended families, caregiver stress, and coping after crises.

Sessions are offered through a variety of online formats and accept international clients, allowing Deborah to match practical access with thoughtful, collaborative treatment planning. Her practice aims to help clients build insight, strengthen relationships, and find workable paths forward amid complex life circumstances.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Deborah integrates Internal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy into online work, offering ways to explore internal parts and relational patterns through conversation and reflective exercises. Internal Family Systems invites clients to notice differing inner states and foster cooperative internal relationships, which can help with issues like anxiety, trauma responses, and self-esteem. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape emotional responses and connection, helping clients and couples repair trust and improve intimacy.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will discuss different frameworks and tailor the therapeutic plan to a client’s goals, preferences, and life context, adapting methods as needed through regular check-ins to ensure the work feels appropriate and effective for the individual or family.

Online sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for varied schedules and locations. These formats make it possible to engage in ongoing therapy while balancing work, caregiving, or geographic constraints, and they allow licensed professionals to provide consistent, accessible support across different communication styles.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
Deborah works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, family and relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, parenting and compassion fatigue.
What is Deborah's therapeutic style like?
Her approach centers the client and often explores individual experience alongside couple or family dynamics, using several modalities to tailor work to each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does Deborah have?
She has 21 years of experience as a clinician and has worked in independent practice with individuals, children, teens, couples, and families.
What credentials and location information are available?
She holds the LPC credential with licence number GA LPC LPC004328 and practices in Georgia.
Are sessions available in languages other than English or to clients abroad?
Sessions are conducted in English and Deborah accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Appointments can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit differing preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for therapy with Deborah?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issuesCompassion fatigue

Also works with

Relationship issuesIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily problemsFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressSelf-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyEmotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodJungian TherapyPsychodynamic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

21+ years

Licensed

Georgia

Languages

English