Deborah LaBounty, LMHC
New York · 10 years in practice
Deborah LaBounty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of experience.
License and registration
- LMHC, New York
- 008975 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1922551191 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Deborah
Deborah LaBounty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, mood struggles, and relationship or family conflicts. Deborah aims to make the first step into therapy feel doable and straightforward for those who are nervous about starting.
Her approach is direct and person-focused. She creates room for people to talk about difficult feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth, with attention to everyday challenges like sleep, parenting stress, and work-related pressures. Deborah uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and coping skills.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is part of her work when trauma or painful memories are central to a person's struggles. She tailors the pace and techniques to each person. That can mean brief skill practice between sessions or longer discussions to understand patterns that keep coming up.
The goal is to build manageable changes a person can keep using after sessions end. Deborah works with a broad range of concerns including grief, intimacy issues, self-esteem, ADHD, and caregiver stress. She combines empathic listening with concrete strategies to help people move forward one step at a time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Deborah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Deborah names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around what the person says matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change them, which works well in short weekly sessions or messaging check-ins. EMDR is used when painful memories or trauma are central; it involves structured sessions that help process those memories and can be adapted to an online setting when appropriate.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences with therapy, and what feels most useful. Together they will decide whether to lean on CBT skills, emotion-regulation strategies from DBT, EMDR work, or a mix of methods based on the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people recreate a face-to-face session from home, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching, and a mix of formats can fit work breaks or caregiving schedules. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Deborah address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental with a focus on practical tools. Sessions combine listening with skill-building and concrete strategies tailored to each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working with adults on issues such as relationship and family conflict, addictions, and coping with life changes.
Where is she licensed and based?
Deborah is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, credentialed as an NY LMHC, and practices from New York.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides a range of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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