Deborah Martin, LMFT
Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Depression
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About me
Hello, it seems you may be looking for a therapist to help you move toward hope. I am a psychotherapist specializing in talk therapy. I have been in private practice, independently licensed in Tennessee since August of 2008 as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I have worked with individuals, children, couples, and families to help them with behavioral, cognitive, or emotional problems using diagnosis, evaluation and therapy that fits their need.
My Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Trevecca Nazarene University and a BS in Cognitive Studies from Vanderbilt University and now many years of experience, have prepared me to be well versed in many modalities of therapy that may be helpful in understanding how to help. I have treated anxiety, depression, family conflict,, low-self esteem, mood instability, challenging irrational beliefs, phobias, smoking cessation, PTSD, DID, other trauma, extreme situational effects, coping with life changes, caretaker burnout, abandonment, attachment issues, parenting issues, forgiveness, guilt, shame and betrayal, for a start. As a therapist I aim to be a listening ear that comes with tools in my kit that may prove helpful in viewing your story for clarity and even lead to changing the narrative toward hope and resiliency. From my viewpoint, therapy should be a helpful collaboration between client and therapist. We would be working together to build a safe and open environment where judgement is a stranger.
Clinical Approaches:
Solution Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Attachment Theory, Emotional Freedom Technique, Emotion Focused Therapy, Client Centered Therapy, Gestalt, Theotherapy, Psychodrama, the work of Salvadore Minuchin, Henri Tajfeld, Virginia Satir, Murray Bowen, John Gottman, Mustafa Sherif, Alan Godwin, Mario Rivera, David Schwartz, Richard Schwartz, the Arbinger Institute, Sue Johnson, Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Zerka and Jacob Moreno, Erik Eriksen, Michael White to name a few. Each of these methods play a part in my work with clients.
Years of Experience: since August 2008
I appreciate your time reading these qualifications and I hope I will get to serve you as a talking partner!
Professional experience
14yrs in practice
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment Issues, Blended Family Issues, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Chronic Pain Illness and Disability, Co-morbidity, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Control Issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Dependent Personality, Dissociation, Divorce and Separation, Emptiness, Expats, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and Shame, Immigration Issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation/Loneliness, Jealousy, Life Purpose, Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood Disorders, Multicultural Concerns, Narcissism, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic Stress, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Prejudice and Discrimination, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-Love, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Smoking/Vaping Cessation, Social Anxiety and Phobia, Somatization, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems
License information
TN LMFT #00662
Reviews
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Deborah is excellent at exposing things and putting it in real life application. She relates everything back to Christ which is exactly what I need. I highly recommend her to anyone!
Written on Feb 13, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 6 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
Deborah has been great since I started seeing her in September 2022. She's great listener and provides solutions to my issues. I always look forward to our weekly meetings.
Written on Feb 13, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and grief
I have found my sessions with Deborah Martin to be so helpful. She has helped me begin to find a path out of my depression and understand how to be kinder to myself.
She has great empathy and knows tools and techniques that are truly useful for dealing with my situation.
Written on Feb 01, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes
Deborah has been a gane-changer for me. She got me through some hectic times and taught me ways to deal with issues I didn't know I still needed to deal with. Thank you so much, Deborah! I am so lucky to have found you.
Written on Jan 28, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes
Deborah is an amazing therapist. I have made so much progress since first meeting with her. She is a great listener, while also giving me advice and teaching me many helpful therapeutic techniques. She challenges me to be the best version of myself, which is exactly what I need. I am so glad I decided to try BetterHelp!
Written on Jan 19, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
So far, i have had the honor of having 3 therapy sessions with Deborah. I am so thankful that I was matched with her. She is very personable, empathetic, and has a compassionate heart. She is an easy person to talk to, uses different unique therapy techniques based on my needs, & I believe she genuinely cares about the betterment of her clients. Deborah is a beautiful human & I am grateful to have her as my therapist.
Written on Jan 16, 2023 after therapy with Deborah for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and adhd