Deborah Gaudet, LPCC
Compassionate therapy grounded in body and emotion
About Deborah
Deborah Gaudet is a licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of experience. She lives in northern New Mexico and brings a hopeful, down-to-earth approach to therapy. Deborah combines practical techniques with attention to feelings and the body to help people move forward.
She trained with a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology and uses ideas from Jungian thought alongside cognitive and emotion-focused methods. Sessions tend to be warm and focused, with space to talk about what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Deborah emphasizes emotional awareness and how the body holds stress or trauma. Her work covers stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She also helps people facing parenting and caregiver stress, career strain, eating or sleeping problems, and struggles with self-esteem.
Deborah lists additional focus areas like abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness, and body image. Deborah names Somatic, Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Emotionally-Focused approaches among her methods. That means sessions may include attention to felt sensations, patterns in relationships, and practical thought and behavior strategies.
She brings a realistic optimism and a belief that people can grow throughout life. Her style is friendly, thorough, and practical. Deborah notices social and systemic factors that shape people’s lives and works with clients to make choices that fit their circumstances.
She aims for steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Deborah blends approaches for online therapy
Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress or trauma. It helps people notice tension, breathing patterns, and movement so they can find relief and new ways to respond to upsetting situations.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current reactions. It can help people understand why they feel unsafe or reactive in close relationships and build more supported ways of relating.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance to create space for honest reflection and self-directed change.
Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work. Deborah will listen to a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and then collaborate to try approaches that feel right. This is a shared process that can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, keep continuity when circumstances change, and access support from different locations. Deborah uses these formats to help people stay connected to therapy in whatever way works best for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English