Debbie Franzen-Lang
Compassionate, experienced counseling for life changes
LPC Louisiana
- Experience
- 30 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Debbie
Debbie Franzen-Lang is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship conflict, grief, eating concerns, depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem struggles, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also lists additional focus areas such as body image, divorce and separation, forgiveness, hearing impaired clients, infidelity, multicultural concerns, panic disorder and panic attacks, and self-harm. With three decades of clinical experience, she draws on a broad set of approaches to tailor care to each person’s situation.
Her style is collaborative and humanistic, emphasizing trust, reflection, and encouragement. She describes counseling as a team effort between client and counselor, working together to clarify present problems, set future goals, and move systematically toward those goals.
Debbie’s practice includes individual, couples, family, and group work, and she notes experience with military populations as part of her practice background. Debbie completed an M.Ed. from Northeast Louisiana University in 1991 and pursued doctoral study in Counselor Education and Supervision.
She holds LPC licensure in Oregon and Arizona as listed and practices in Louisiana, where she maintains appraisal privilege and a supervision designation with the Louisiana LPC Board. Her approach integrates evidence-informed methods such as CBT alongside other therapeutic models to meet clients where they are.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Debbie integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into online work by helping clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies to shift behaviors and emotional responses; this approach is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and stress-related concerns. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on building a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist reflects and clarifies a client’s experience to help them find their own solutions and increase self-understanding. Additionally, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) may be applied for relationship and intimacy issues, guiding partners to recognize and change interaction patterns that undermine connection.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with clients to clarify goals and preferences, and may draw from CBT, client-centered work, or EFT as appropriate rather than relying on a single method. This shared process helps tailor sessions to what the client needs most at a given time.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexibility for scheduling and allow continuity of care across different situations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, maintain momentum between sessions, and access support from licensed professionals without geographic constraints.
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Experience
30+ years
Licensed
Louisiana, Arizona, Oregon
Languages
English