Debra Shelton, Licensed Professional Counselor, MS

Licensed

Online Counseling

(48 reviews)

LPC, MHSP, LMHC Debra Shelton

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

And recovery is possible.

Debra Shelton is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: LPC, MHSP, LMHC Years in Practice: 20 State: Mississippi

Welcome! It takes courage to seek a more fulfilling and happier life and to take those first steps towards change - I’m glad you are here. The courage you are now using to seek help can lead to great rewards and I would be honored to work with you. I’m a licensed therapist with 20 years of experience and have been providing services for Betterhelp for the past 5 years. Regardless of your situation, (whether you just feel stuck or are trying to manage some big challenges in your life) counseling can be helpful and rewarding.

My approach combines principles of different therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavior therapy and humanistic counseling. In plain English, that means I believe you have the answers within you and we can work together to uncover them and to find solutions. I work with you to understand how your challenges developed, but I also help you learn new problem solving skills that you can apply to future challenges. We may look into the past sometimes in order to help you gain insight into your challenges and we will try on some new perspectives and new behaviors in an effort to bring about positive changes in your life. Together, we will determine the goals you want to achieve and from there we will collaborate on how to tackle each of them. If you are ready to take that step, I am here to support and empower you.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Addictions Relationship issues Family conflicts Depression Trauma and abuse Grief Eating disorders Sleeping disorders Self esteem Career difficulties Coping with life changes Compassion fatigue ADHD
Languages Spoken: English

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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Debra has compassion and wisdom. She listens and encourages, but also challenges me. A great therapist!

Debra is an absolute delight to work with. Such great insight. Being able to work with her has allowed me to move forward with life and gain new insight and confidence! Thanks Debra for your guidance, kindness. It's been a pleasure.

She is a great listener and expert on helping me to manage my thoughts.

Debra has been a great help over the last several months of my mental health journey. She always listens to what I have to say and really helps me dig down into the cause of my negative thoughts and feelings to help me change my perspective.

Debra is encouraging and supportive. She is a great listener, which helps me to process since I am a verbal processor. She is good at asking questions that help me to move forward and get a better understanding of how I got here, where I am and where I would like to go.

Debra Shelton is a wonderful counselor. She listens and asks questions which make me see things in a different light. She is caring and understanding. I am extremely pleased with her counseling abilities.

Debra really listens and give me great support. I know she is looking out for my mental well being.

She’s great. Wise. Resourceful and accessible.

I’ve been blessed to be connected with such a wonderful woman of God, this was the best choice. Ms. Debra was able to give me the information I needed that would get me through my day or weeks.

Truly a fabulous therapist. It doesn’t get better than Deborah.

I was very lucky to have been paired with Debra. I was very wound up when we first spoke and she was able to listen and advise and totally clear my head. Can’t recommend working with Debra enough. 10 out of 10.

Debra has helped me immensely! I was afraid therapy would be uncomfortable, but she makes it easy and understands my concerns. She’s easy to reach and to schedule. I highly recommend her!

Debra is a caring professional who I would highly recommend. She helped me tremendously Bob Bennett

She’s been amazing so far

Debra is a great therapist. She gently guides me to find solutions for problems within myself. Debra listens carefully and patiently.

I have enjoyed each message interaction and therapy session with Debra. I chose to speak with her through messaging as I felt I could be much more honest with her and myself. She has responsed well to me and has given great insight during sessions and homework to keep working daily.

Debra is hanging in there with me in a tough situation.

Debra is awesome!

Debra Shelton is excellent and supportive in her advise and a great listener

She is absolutely amazing. She really listens to everything I have to say and helps me realize things like what I am feeling and what my beliefs are that contribute to my situation. She has helped me identify thinking patterns that lead to me feeling more depressed and anxious so I can work on recognizing and changing it. She has also helped me with things I didn't even realize were bothering me and I feel so much better after just a few sessions with her. I would highly recommend her to anyone needing mental health help

Debra helped me SO much during the year I was in therapy. The advice, perspectives, and tools she offered me during our sessions really helped me work through some heavy trauma/issues. I’ve come a long way since I started therapy with her. I’m so glad I met her and I know I will continue to benefit from what I learned from her. She is wonderful!

Debra is a warm, professional therapist with needed insight and direction into my healing journey.

I have enjoyed talking to Debra these past few months. She asks great questions that help me get to the bottom of issues and she offers intelligent insight. I also appreciate her candid responses. She is very responsive to my messages and she checks in on me if she hasn’t heard from me in a while. Overall, I believe she is very experienced and professional. I feel like she has helped me a lot.

Debra is wonderful

Debra is a caring professional who is responsive to my messages.

Ms. Shelton is a wonderful listener & very compassionate as well as insightful.

Debra has helped me really get to the heart of my issues and how to deal with them and conquer them. The resources and insight she provides is invaluable. I am so thankful for her after seeing so many different therapists/ counselors, she os the one that made the difference in my life

I like how she is straight forward and keeps things honest. She does make sure to not offend or make me uncomfortable but I like having open honesty to really work on the stuff needing to be discussed.

She is so kind and so helpful! She makes me feel heard and acknowledged. I’m so thankful I chose BetterHelp and have Debra Shelton as my counselor!

I've never felt such ease with talking to a therapist. Debra has given me support through tough times and had also given me information that helps me understand myself. I like that it's not always about feelings, but also about resources and information. It will help me grow.

Debra got me through 2020 and a new diagnosis of generalized anxiety. I could have gotten through this past year without her guidance and expertise.

I really like that she has stayed in touch over months of things being ok for me. Because I started feeling like I needed her again and that week I heard back from her.

SHE IS THE BEST, AND IT FELT SO GOOD TO TO LOGIN TO SEE HER..

Debra is an empathetic listener and strives to help me find my own answers. She has deep knowledge of counseling practices and techniques.

This has been a wonderful experience. Debra always asks the right questions to make you think and assess things. I have learned so much about myself since starting my sessions with her!

I’ve had an amazing couple of sessions with Debra! We instantly hit it off on a few comment career paths, which gave her the ability to not only be relatable but extremely compassionate. Looking forward to my continuous sessions and personal growth. Thanks Debra!

Debra is wonderful! She gives great advice but more more than anything she is honest and transparent.... which is hard to find. Debra is also genuine and thoughtful. If you have the opportunity to have her as your counselor you will not regret it. She is one of the best!

Debra is so great. She listens and offers advice and different perspectives. She talks to me not at me.

I'm comfortable with her demeanor she has a sense of humor that must be in my life, in order to cope, with life. I'm fortunate that she is well educated in the practice of therapy, she seems to pick up on flags that I wave before I do.....I like Debra, thank you.

Debra has been amazing with helping learn to navigate and deal with a newly diagnosed anxiety disorder. With her guidance and meds from my pcp I feel like I’m almost back to my old self.

Debra is a kind natured person. Great listener and is very solutions oriented. I feel very supported by Debra and working with her has helped me tremendously

Although I have only had 2 sessions with Debra at this time, I have been pleased with the times. She is very patient, and intuitive. I appreciate being able to open up and get an honest second viewpoint from her.

She has been extremely polite and understanding.

I would like to say that so far Debra Shelton has helped me tremendously and we have really just gotten started. I'm new to therapy and have been stand offish in the past but she makes me feel comfortable and able to open up. I would recommend her for sure!

Debra has been a great listener, never is judgemental, and is good about helping me see things more realistically. I have a lot of different issues I am working on. I guess I’m a bit of a complicated case. But she has been up to the challenge, responds quickly to messages and has always been there when I need her. One of the most important things is that you feel you can really open up to your therapist and I feel that I can talk to her about whatever I need to.

After working with Debra for just a couple of months, I have seen my anxiety drastically reduce. I learned a tremendous amount from her about how to manage and effectively cope with anxiety and trauma. I have seen great results when putting these new things into practice. She is very patient, kind, and understanding. I found it easy to open up to her. She is also very good about checking in and making sure I am on track to becoming a better version of myself.

She offers many different ways to solve my problems and issues. She replies quickly to messages, too. I feel like my life is coming back together with the use of this program and through her help.

She’s a very kind natured person. Great listener and is very solutions oriented. I feel very supported by Debra and working with her has helped me tremendously

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