Deborah "Debbie" Kirby, LCSW
Licensed in Oregon · 24 years in practice
Deborah "Debbie" Kirby is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Oregon with 24 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Oregon
- L3454 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1235260431 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 24
- Languages
- English
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About Deborah
Deborah "Debbie" Kirby is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Oregon with 24 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical guidance for people facing big transitions. Debbie also brings experience in executive and professional coaching to conversations about work and career concerns.
Debbie aims to make the first meetings straightforward and down to earth. She creates space to talk about stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, parenting worries, or struggles with eating and life purpose.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and what small steps feel doable between meetings. Her approach blends several methods so sessions match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward chosen values.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and communication patterns. Debbie also draws on client-centered and dialectical strategies to hold steady through intense feelings and to validate hard experiences.
She has additional experience addressing adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, fertility and end-of-life topics, first responder issues, and compassion fatigue. People who choose Debbie often want a practical, empathetic therapist who mixes coaching and therapy. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort as they work through change and find clearer direction.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Deborah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Deborah names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
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Online support
How Deborah's Approaches Work Online
Debbie draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people address problems in online sessions. ACT teaches ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and communication, helping people change repeating cycles and build more satisfying connections.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Debbie collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. She adapts exercises and conversations so they work well in an online setting and checks in to adjust the plan as needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for things that benefit from face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is handy for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These choices make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, or other responsibilities and allow consistent progress even when life gets busy.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, eating issues, parenting concerns, career questions, and life changes among other topics.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and down to earth, mixing practical coaching with supportive therapy to help people take small, manageable steps.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 24 years of professional experience working with people in clinical and coaching roles.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She holds an Oregon LCSW credential and provides services from that state.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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