Debbie Franzen-Lang , LPC

Debbie Franzen-Lang is a licensed counselor with three decades of clinical experience who combines a humanistic outlook with practical interventions to support individuals, couples, families, and military clients. She earned an M.Ed. from Northeast Louisiana University in 1991 and is a doctoral scholar in Counselor Education and Supervision at Walden University. She holds national certifications as a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a National Certified School Counselor (NCSC #245996), and she is licensed as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. She also holds an LPC-S designation and maintains appraisal privilege and a supervision designation with the Louisiana LPC Board.

Her practice blends client-centered, cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, existential, and Gottman-informed methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, eating and body-image issues, parenting and career challenges, bipolar disorder, anger, self-harm, and multicultural and veteran-related matters. She offers individual, couples, family, and group therapy, and she does not work independently with children under six years of age.

Debbie maintains a clinical general and telehealth practice from an office located at 11410 Lake Sherwood Ave North Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70816. Telephone: 225-295-8444, Fax: 225-295-8448. Her approach emphasizes collaboration - working together to define present concerns, set goals, and make systematic progress toward meaningful change.

Approaches and Online Counseling with Debbie Franzen-Lang

Debbie Franzen-Lang integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathy, active listening, and supporting clients to explore their own values and goals, which can be especially helpful for people navigating life transitions, grief, or self-esteem concerns. CBT offers structured tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, making it useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and stress-related difficulties.

She also uses emotionally-focused therapy to help couples and individuals better understand and shift interaction patterns that affect intimacy and relationships, creating clearer emotional connection and problem-solving. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - she works with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals and tailors methods over time to find the best fit.

Online therapy with Debbie is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or clients living far from her Baton Rouge office. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while adapting therapy to everyday life and changing circumstances.