About Debra
Debra McGuffee helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports people coping with trauma, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating or sleeping difficulties, and career stress.
Background and approach
Debra is a Minnesota Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she brings three decades of clinical experience to her work. Her style is direct and practical.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
She also draws on dialectical skills to manage strong emotions. Debra has experience across many settings, including community and corporate environments.
That background informs her work with career-related concerns, work stress, and life transitions. She also offers support for people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and grief.
When requested, she can include Christian-based perspectives in counseling. She emphasizes collaboration and asks clients to name a few goals to guide early sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and provided via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, clients use the platform start process, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability.
Debra encourages practical steps, honest conversation, and steady progress toward the changes people want to make.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Debra uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand emotions and improve how they connect with others during difficult moments. EFT can help with relationship strain and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Debra will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. She collaborates with clients to pick techniques that feel practical and meaningful for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you keep face-to-face contact and is helpful for longer conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English