Deborah Hill, LMFT

Deborah Hill is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with more than 30 years of clinical experience. She has provided care across a wide range of settings, including community mental health programs, inpatient alcohol and drug treatment, outpatient services for people in recovery and their family members, and a Sexual Assault Crisis Center supporting adults assaulted recently or as children.

For much of her career she has maintained a private practice, helping people navigate divorce, bereavement, job loss, employment transitions, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and changes related to health. Over the past 10 years she has focused her work almost exclusively on military service members and their families, serving on installations both inside and outside the United States.

Deborah views the relationship between therapist and client as the strongest predictor of helpful outcomes, and she prioritizes an early conversation about goals to clarify what a person hopes to gain from therapy. She encourages use of community resources when appropriate, believing that a supportive network often improves a person’s ability to heal and cope. The overall aim is to help clients develop practical ways to manage the pain or difficulty that brought them to therapy.

Her clinical style is interactive and flexible, drawing from humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives as well as rational emotive approaches. Sessions are guided by each client’s needs - for example a recent widow will have different priorities than a 30-year-old working on sobriety. Deborah acknowledges the courage it takes to seek help and approaches each person’s story with care and respect.