About Deborah
Deborah Landwehr is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Iowa with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or doubts about themselves.
Background and approach
Deborah centers conversations on each person's strengths and goals rather than on labels. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and hopeful.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions often begin by identifying the most pressing problem and small, practical steps a person can try between meetings.
She uses talk-based methods alongside skills practice to help with emotion regulation, clearer communication, and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns. Deborah works with concerns such as relationship strain, family conflict, caregiver stress, and struggles with self-esteem.
She also supports people facing divorce or separation, social anxiety, and issues around forgiveness and life purpose. Her background includes using tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, paired with client-centered and mindfulness techniques.
In sessions she aims to build momentum rather than rely on quick fixes. People leave with concrete strategies they can apply at home, at work, or in daily routines.
Her style is warm, direct, and practical, with a focus on steady progress. Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit each person’s schedule.
Deborah emphasizes collaboration and adjusts plans as needs change over time.
How Deborah’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person’s lead and helps them make sense of their own experience, which can ease overwhelm and build self-trust. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and lift mood and anxiety.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Deborah will talk with each person about goals and daily routines and recommend techniques that fit their needs. That plan is adjusted over time so it stays useful and realistic for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when a quieter environment or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit shorter check-ins into a busy day or to put thoughts into writing between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule alongside everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English