Debra "Debbie" Briggs, LMHC

Debra "Debbie" Briggs, LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor), brings 14 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life transitions. She works with individuals facing grief and loss, depression, sexual assault and abuse, PTSD, ADHD, struggles with motivation and impulsivity, low self-esteem, and the practical challenges that come with relationship conflict and family problems. Her clinical focus includes trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and helping clients build healthier, more functional relationships and family systems.

Briggs draws on a range of evidence-informed methods - including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness therapy, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused approaches - to tailor care to each person’s needs. She emphasizes strengths and collaboration, viewing each person as the expert on their own story while offering tools to process painful experiences and develop practical coping skills.

Her additional areas of focus include attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, communication challenges, family of origin work, fertility-related distress, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and women’s issues. Based in Washington, Briggs provides services in both English and Spanish and centers therapeutic work on hope, resilience, and tangible steps toward healthier functioning.