Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Greetings,
I am pleased and excited that you have decided to consider me as a possible partner in your journey of discovery, growth, and healing and I look forward to having the opportunity to work with you.
My name is Debra Younger. I have the claim to fame of being a 4th generation Californian, though I currently live in the mountains of New Mexico.
I have been a professional therapist and Life Coach for 11 years. As a result, I am able to bring a wide breadth of learning and experience to my work. I am also a veteran and have a heart for working with our returning servicemen and women as they struggle to re-integrate back into civilian life from a combat or military environment.
On a personal note, my many life experiences, such as being a single parent for 23 years, allow me to truly understand and emphasize with many of the adverse life events my clients have experienced. I have also been in my own personal therapy for 10 years, so I understand what it takes to admit that you’re human, that you can’t always handle what life throws at you, and be courageous enough to seek help.
My areas of expertise lie in working with individuals who are struggling to deal with the adverse events they have experienced in their lives; including trauma, all forms of abuse, loss, grief, and attachment issues.
My approach to therapy is founded on my belief that my clients are more than the problems that they are experiencing and bring to therapy. It is a holistic approach that sees them as a whole person consisting of mind, body, and spirit intimately intertwined and inseparable. A problem in any one area always affects the others.
My preferred modality for counseling is Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. This is a therapeutic approach that does not pathologize people, but rather takes a positive attitude toward the client’s issues and sees them as normal reactions to adverse life events, which events can create negative beliefs. These negative beliefs can then interfere with an individual’s ability to form healthy, adult relationships. Learning how to shift these negative beliefs to positive adaptive beliefs can enhance the ability to build healthy relationships.
I am very excited about what IFS can offer you and would welcome the opportunity to introduce you to this powerful therapy and how it can help transform your lives.
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Debra Younger is a Missouri-based licensed professional counselor who brings 13 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. She holds a Missouri professional counseling license (MO LPC 2018043925) and works with adults confronting a range of life challenges.
As a veteran, Debra has a particular commitment to supporting servicemen and women as they work to re-integrate into civilian life after combat or military service. Her own life experiences— including parenting as a single parent for 23 years and participating in personal therapy for a decade—inform her empathetic and grounded approach.
Her clinical focus centers on helping individuals manage the effects of adverse events, including trauma, all forms of abuse, loss and grief, and attachment difficulties. She also addresses stress, anxiety, self-esteem, coping with life changes, LGBT concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger management, and career difficulties.
Debra practices from a holistic perspective that sees mind, body, and spirit as interconnected; she believes challenges in one area often affect the others. Her primary therapeutic modality is Internal Family Systems (IFS), a non-pathologizing approach that frames symptoms as understandable responses to difficult experiences. Using IFS, she works with clients to shift limiting beliefs toward more adaptive, positive beliefs that can support healthier adult relationships and improved emotional functioning.
She invites prospective clients to explore how IFS and an integrative, person-centered approach can support healing, growth, and more satisfying relationships.
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