Deborah Devlin , LPCC

Deborah Devlin is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with 25 years of experience across outpatient settings, hospitals, disaster response teams, home-based programs, and overseas work supporting military members and their families. Her practice is grounded in a client-centered perspective that incorporates motivational interviewing, systems theory, developmental theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Akron, a master’s degree in community counseling from Malone University, and a master’s degree in philosophy, and she is completing a doctorate at Walden University, having recently completed dissertation research on post-traumatic growth among military members.

Deborah works with youth, families, individuals, and groups addressing mental health and addiction disorders. Her clinical focus spans stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, LGBT issues, grief and intimacy-related matters, eating and sleeping challenges, parenting and caregiver stress, anger and self-esteem, career and life-change coping, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. Additional interests include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, body image, chronic illness and pain, and co-morbidity. Her stated goal is to help people move forward in meaningful, healthy ways, and she enjoys working with clients across the lifespan who are ready to take that step.