Deborah (Deb) is a licensed social worker.  She gained her Masters of Social Work from West Virginia University.  Deb has over 25 years of experience in the social work field.  She has extensive experience in treating families and children as well as school based issues.  In the early part of her career, she worked with Fayette County Children and Youth Services as well as provided in home family therapy.  She specializes in areas such as adolescents, adults, families, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, marital issues, sport, health, human performance and trauma.  She received trauma training from Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown, WV under the late Louis Tinnin and Linda Gnatt.  She believes in treating the person as a whole as a means to empower them in order for change to occur.  She uses various therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Reality, Gestalt, art, music and play therapy. Deb is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, International Association of Trauma Professionals, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies as well as the Association for Play Therapy.