Debora Van Romer

Debora Van Romer, LPCC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, or the fallout of trauma and abuse. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Her style is warm and encouraging for people who need steady support during difficult life changes.

With 16 years of experience practicing in Ohio, she draws on several clinical approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions focus on building a trusting relationship, clarifying what matters most, and taking small, practical steps that fit daily life. Debora listens for patterns that affect relationships, mood, and self-worth, then works with clients to try different ways of coping.

Her background includes long‑term work with issues such as family conflict, domestic violence, divorce and separation, caregiving stress, and codependency. She also supports people facing intimacy challenges, abandonment wounds, aging concerns, and dissociation. These areas often overlap, and she helps people untangle them at a pace that feels right.

Therapy sessions commonly combine client-centered conversation with techniques from attachment-based and cognitive behavioral approaches. Emotion-focused and existential ideas may be used when they match a person's goals. The aim is to make therapy practical and relevant, not just theoretical.

Debora encourages people to notice small changes and to build skills for handling anger, communication problems, commitment worries, and low self-esteem. She asks curious questions, reflects what she hears, and helps plan the next steps in a clear way.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationships shape current reactions. It helps people see patterns in trust, closeness, and fear of abandonment and supports building safer ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities; the therapist follows the client's pace, reflects what is said, and helps people feel heard while exploring practical steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and coping habits.

Finding the right approach is usually collaborative. The therapist will ask about goals, daily life, and what has helped or not helped before. Together the client and therapist will try approaches that fit the person's needs and adjust as progress or new concerns appear.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking because formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten a check-in when time is tight, or avoid travel time. It also allows conversations to continue consistently through life changes, and approaches like attachment-informed work, client-centered listening, and CBT tools adapt well to remote sessions when agreed upon by the client and therapist.