Deborah Browne, LMHC
Narrative-focused counselor helping people find direction
Details
| Name | Deborah Browne |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMHC |
| Based in | New York |
| Licensed in | New York, Florida, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 14 |
About Deborah
Deborah Browne is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings 14 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and other life changes. She uses Narrative ideas alongside practical therapies to help people tell their stories and find clearer paths forward.
Her work often addresses relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people facing addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Deborah pays attention to how life events shape identity and behavior, and she helps people name those patterns. In sessions she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to build skills for handling painful feelings and unhelpful thoughts. She also uses Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused approaches to create space for a person's experience and to strengthen emotional connections.
These methods are applied in straightforward, practical ways rather than as abstract theory. Her background includes working with people through divorce and separation, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment or abandonment issues, and body image or eating difficulties. She listens for the everyday problems that make life harder and helps craft doable steps to address them.
Deborah offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Relationship issues among the things Deborah works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Deborah among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Deborah directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Deborah directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Practical Therapies Work Online
Deborah uses Narrative Therapy to help people separate themselves from difficult problems by looking at life stories and noticing unhelpful patterns. This approach can be useful for identity questions, attachment issues, and problems that feel tied to past events.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and building coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. These approaches aim to give clear tools and new ways of relating to feelings.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Deborah will talk with a person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which ideas to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing reflection and quick touch-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does she help with?
She helps with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma and relationship difficulties along with issues like addictions, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and caregiving stress.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She blends Narrative ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, plus client-centered and emotionally-focused elements for emotional connection and practical skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience working with people on mood, relationship, and life-transition concerns.
What credentials and location should I know?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing from New York and holds the LMHC credential in that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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