About me
Greetings,
I am pleased and excited that you have decided to consider me as a possible partner in your journey of discovery, growth, and healing and I look forward to having the opportunity to work with you.
My name is Debra Younger. I have the claim to fame (?) of being a 4th generation Californian, though I currently live in the mountains of New Mexico.
I have been a professional therapist and Life Coach for 11 years. As a result, I am able to bring a wide breadth of learning and experience to my work. I am also a veteran and have a heart for working with our returning servicemen and women as they struggle to re-integrate back into civilian life from a combat or military environment.
On a personal note, my many life experiences, such as being a single parent for 23 years, allow me to truly understand and emphasize with many of the adverse life events my clients have experienced. I have also been in my own personal therapy for 10 years, so I understand what it takes to admit that you’re human, that you can’t always handle what life throws at you, and be courageous enough to seek help.
In my work with individuals or couples looking for relationship help, I take a holistic approach, in that I believe my clients are more than the problems that they are experiencing and bringing to therapy. It is a holistic approach that sees them as a whole person consisting of mind, body, and spirit intimately intertwined and inseparable. A problem in any one area always affects the others.
My preferred modality for relationship counseling is Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. This is a therapeutic approach that does not pathologize people, but rather takes a positive attitude toward the client’s issues and sees them as normal reactions to adverse life events, which events can create negative beliefs. These negative beliefs can then interfere with an individual’s ability to form healthy, adult relationships. Learning how to shift these negative beliefs to positive adaptive beliefs can enhance the ability to build healthy relationships.
One of my goals in working with clients and IFS is to help them develop the skills to utilize the system independent of a therapist most of the time. This empowers individuals to promote their own healing as well as to maintain the healing they have gained. It also allows them to be more empathic and understanding in any relationship they might have.
I am very excited about what IFS can offer you and your partner, and would welcome the opportunity to introduce you to this powerful therapy and how it can help transform your lives.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma, Abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem, Motivation
- Coping with life changes
LGBT , Relationship issues , Family conflicts , Intimacy-related issues , Parenting issues , Anger management , Depression , Abandonment , Attachment issues , Cancer , Caregiver issues and stress , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Attachment-Based Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems
Years of Experience: 13
Services offered
Messaging
Phone
Video
Licensing
MO LPC 2018043925
Reviews
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She is great
Amazing working with Debra! Highly recommended!
Debra is incredibly intuitive and has presented several real life practices that I can incorporate into my daily routine.
Thank you for putting the energy in taking action to make a positive difference. Your description of good therapy and counseling is right on target with my views.