Deborah Richert

Deborah Richert is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship problems, and addictions. She keeps a relaxed, down-to-earth style and aims to make the first steps toward help feel less daunting. Deborah focuses on people’s strengths and practical steps they can use right away.

She works with each person as an individual and values their voice in planning treatment. Sessions emphasize listening, clear goals, and skills people can use between meetings. Deborah blends Trauma-Focused Therapy with approaches that look at attachment patterns and present-day thinking and behavior.

Her experience includes work with grief, adjustment struggles, substance use, panic, and mood disorders. She also addresses issues like abandonment, codependency, chronic illness, guilt, and isolation. Deborah uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when these fit a person’s needs.

Deborah aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard. She often helps clients identify strengths they’ve overlooked and build on them to move forward. Her manner is supportive and occasionally light-hearted to ease tension.

If someone wants to begin, she asks them to share their goals so she can collaborate on a plan that fits their life. Booking begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.

How Deborah Uses Trauma, Attachment, and CBT Online

Deborah integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in practical ways. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on helping people process and reduce the impact of past harm so they can feel safer and more able to cope with daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how close relationships shape feelings and reactions, and helps people build clearer patterns of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and panic.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Deborah will talk with each person about goals, experiences, and preferences and then recommend a combination of methods. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is working for the person.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to practice CBT and DBT skills between sessions. Discuss scheduling needs when you complete the matching questionnaire so sessions align with daily life.