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Debra Arseneaux

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Debra Arseneaux, LPC

Texas

Licensed Professional Counselor - Family and parenting focus

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About

  • Stress and anxiety
  • Parenting concerns
  • Attachment issues

About Debra

Debra Arseneaux is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 21 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, grief, addictions, and a broad range of life changes. Her background includes private practice ownership and executive coaching roles that shaped how she supports people who need practical tools and focused guidance.

Debra uses brief therapy models while remaining open to extending treatment when needed. She combines approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, step-by-step skills, and problem-solving for everyday difficulties at home and work.

Clients can expect direct conversation, work on concrete strategies, and guidance for applying skills between meetings. She also integrates coaching techniques when people want help moving toward specific life or career goals. The emphasis is on usable tools rather than long, abstract discussion.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, body image and eating concerns, intimacy-related matters, and first responder stress. Debra supports people processing divorce, separation, infidelity, or complicated family problems.

She accepts clients from outside the United States and offers services in English. Practical matters such as scheduling and the subscription billing model are handled through the online sign-up process described below.

How sessions work

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Debra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small actions toward meaningful goals while managing difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT is often used for anxiety, stress, and life-direction concerns.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can help people understand repeated relationship conflicts, abandonment fears, and problems with trust or closeness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaboratively review goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to decide which methods to prioritize. Clients and she can adjust the plan as progress and new issues arise.

The biography does not list specific session delivery methods, so confirm available online formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals often use video for interactive skill practice and phone for brief updates or lower bandwidth situations; check which of these options Debra currently offers when you schedule.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationFamily problemsFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Sexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

21+ years

Listed in

Texas, Michigan

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with at home?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting issues, grief, trauma and addictions among other family-related concerns.

What is her general approach in sessions?

She uses practical, goal-focused work drawing on ACT, CBT, DBT, attachment-based and client-centered methods to teach skills and solve immediate problems.

How long has she been practicing?

She has 21 years of experience, including running a private practice and providing executive coaching.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is an LPC and is based in Texas with licensure recorded as MI LPC and TX LPC.

Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How does payment work and what does it cost?

Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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