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Rated 4.7 stars out of 5, 14 ratings

Deborah Sharman

LMFT, 17 years of experience

Open-minded
Warm
Authentic
Virtual
Next available on

About me

Deborah enjoys working together with her clients to form a strong therapeutic bond. She is motivated to help her clients live there best authentic lives. She has experience helping people develop strong coping skills to reduce, manage and or alleviate their anxiety, depression and work/relational stress. In her spare time Deborah enjoys spending time with her family and grandson, hiking, walking her dog, trying new recipes and planning for travel.

Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

Deborah will introduce herself and ask you a few questions about what your expectation for therapy is as well as ask about any experience in the past with therapy. She will review limits of confidentiality in the informed consent. She will verify your location each visit for safety reasons in teletherapy. She will want to hear from you about what is bringing you to therapy now and how she can help.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

Deborah is a empathetic listener and observer. Her style can be direct at times, which her client find helpful. She cares deeply about the work and helping her clients to over-come areas they may be stuck.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

Deborah prefers to work with individual adult males and females. She is experienced in helping people improve their interpersonal using CBT and Psychodynamic methods. She has helped people with anxiety, depression, work and relationship related stress with positive results.

Specialties

Top specialties

Anxiety
Coping Skills
Depression

Other specialties

Addiction
Family Conflict
Grief
Life Transitions
Older Adults
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Self Esteem
Women's Issues

I identify as

Woman

Serves ages

Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)

My treatment methods

Psychodynamic

My education and training originated in psychodynamic, meaning I will explore how current issues and concerns might have roots in childhood.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i)

This theory believes that thoughts create feeling and both affect the behavior. This method has been scientifically proven to improve anxiety and depression.

Person-centered (Rogerian)

This method asks the therapist to meet the client where they are with compassion

Location

Virtual

Licensed in

California

Accepts

Aetna
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - WebTPA
All Savers
AvMed
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
Cash - $120 per session
Cigna
Evernorth
Golden Rule
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Surest (formerly Bind)
Tufts Health/Cigna
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicare
Rated 4.7 stars out of 5, 14 ratings

1 rating with written reviews

February 20, 2025

Deborah is a good listener and understands my situation.

Verified client, age 65+

Review shared after session 1 with Deborah