Deborah Sharp, LPC

Deborah Sharp is an Oklahoma licensed professional counselor (LPC) with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and low self-esteem. Deborah talks plainly and offers steady support while clients take steps toward better day-to-day coping.

Her approach centers on practical strategies that people can use between sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills are used to help people notice emotions without getting stuck in them.

Deborah also draws from client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tools are introduced when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. She adapts conversations and plans to fit what each person says is most important.

She has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship and communication problems, codependency, attachment and abandonment issues, body image and caregiver stress. Deborah offers straightforward guidance for life transitions such as divorce, blended family adjustments, and loss.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Deborah helps people set small, doable steps and checks progress along the way. Her style is respectful, calm, and practical, focused on real changes that make daily life easier.

How Deborah’s approaches translate to online care

Deborah commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. ACT helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when hard emotions are present, useful for grief, avoidance, and low motivation.

She also brings client-centered listening into sessions, creating space for people to set their own goals and pace. Choosing the right approach happens together: the therapist and client discuss needs, try methods, and adjust as progress becomes clear. This keeps therapy flexible and tailored to each person’s goals.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care fit into busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reminders and short updates. These formats help people access consistent therapy without rearranging their whole day.