- Compassionate listening
- Practical skills
- Values-based work
About Debra
Debra Gionet is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 25 years of experience. She works with people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting strain, or low self esteem. Her manner is calm and straightforward, and she aims to make therapy useful from the first session.
She helps people facing major life changes, career decisions, and challenges tied to body image or eating and food-related issues. Many clients come with family of origin concerns, attachment questions, or communication problems. She also supports those coping with fertility, pregnancy and childbirth matters, and issues tied to women’s health.
Her practice draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs. Debra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and reduce avoidance, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on the person in the room. She also brings psychodynamic ideas and experience with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related concerns.
Debra describes her perspective as compassionate and personalized. She will talk through practical skills for coping, communication, and emotional regulation. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, so goals are set together and adjusted as needed.
Sessions are offered in English from her California practice. People interested in starting are asked to use the continue button on this profile to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
She helps people facing major life changes, career decisions, and challenges tied to body image or eating and food-related issues. Many clients come with family of origin concerns, attachment questions, or communication problems. She also supports those coping with fertility, pregnancy and childbirth matters, and issues tied to women’s health.
Her practice draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs. Debra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and reduce avoidance, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on the person in the room. She also brings psychodynamic ideas and experience with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related concerns.
Debra describes her perspective as compassionate and personalized. She will talk through practical skills for coping, communication, and emotional regulation. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, so goals are set together and adjusted as needed.
Sessions are offered in English from her California practice. People interested in starting are asked to use the continue button on this profile to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.