Deborah Hill, LMFT

Deborah Hill is an LMFT - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience. She has practiced across multiple settings, including community mental health, inpatient alcohol and drug treatment, outpatient counseling for people in recovery and their family members, and a Sexual Assault Crisis Center supporting adults and survivors of childhood assault. For much of her career she has also maintained a private practice, guiding people through divorce, grief, job loss, employment transitions, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, parenting challenges, relationship issues, and health changes.

Over the past decade she has focused her work on military members and their families, providing services on installations in the United States and abroad. She emphasizes early conversations about goals so that clinical work aligns with what each person hopes to gain from therapy. She encourages clients to use community resources when appropriate, believing that a supportive network often helps people manage the pain that brought them to therapy.

Her clinical style is interactive and eclectic, informed by humanistic, psychodynamic, and rational emotive approaches, and shaped by client needs rather than a single protocol. Sessions are tailored to the situation - for example, the needs of a recent widow differ from those of a 30-year-old working on sobriety. She recognizes the courage it takes to ask for help and approaches each person’s story with care and respect.