Deborah Metroka, MA, LCPC
Deborah Metroka, MA, LCPC
VerifiedNot Accepting New Clients
Telehealth Available
Professions: Counselor
License Status: I'm a licensed professional.
Primary Credential: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - 180-006344
Billing and Insurance:
I am an in-network provider for:
- Aetna
- Anthem
- Beacon
- Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
- Cigna
- ComPsych
- Employer Assistance Plan (EAP)
- HFN
- Humana
- Magellan
- Multiplan PHCS
- Optum
- Optum/United Health Care
- Out of Network Provider
- UniCare
- United Behavioral Health
- ValueOptions
Session Fees: Session Fee: $175hr (however, using insurance may lower this rate)
Free Initial Consultation
What's My Approach to Therapy?
As a counselor, my passion and purpose is to equip and empower others to become all that they can be. I love to help people improve their personal mental health, work life effectiveness and satisfaction, and their relationships. Collaboratively, we identify personal strengths, areas for change, and then identify how they can continue to grow into their 'best self', finally feeling more confident and skilled at handling stress, in dealing with challenging emotional and relational situations, feeling more healed from the past, and ready to achieve new goals in pursuit of a more satisfying and fulfilling future. In addition, as a Christian, I welcome assisting fellow Christians with incorporating their faith into our work together.
My Practice & Services
Deborah obtained her Telemental Health Training Certificate from the Telehealth Certification Institute LLC in 2020, and completed a Foundations of Biblical Counseling Training Course from the Biblical Counseling Center in Arlington Heights, IL in 2023.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
Christian Issues
AnxietyPhobias
DepressionMood Disorders
Stress Management
AbuseTrauma
Negative View of Self
GriefLoss
Work & Career Issues
Workplace Bullying
Life Transitions & Difficult Decision-Making
Personal Development & Productivity
Issues for Small BusinessEntrepreneurs
Private Practice Work Issues
Parenting Support
Family Counseling
Couples Counseling
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Therapy Services & Specialties
- Clinical Supervision
- Coaching
- Consultation
- Family Therapy
- Individual Therapy & Counseling
- Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
- Telehealth
Client Age Groups I Work With
- Adults
- Elders
Languages
- English
Groups I Work With
- In working with all adults 18yo and older, I specialize with working with those of the Christian faith.
Industries & Communities Served
- Self-Employed and Freelance Professionals
- Union First
Client Challenges & Concerns I Address
- Abandonment
- Abortion / Post Abortion Issues
- Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues
- Academic Concerns
- Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
- Agoraphobia
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attachment Issues
- Bipolar
- Blended Family Issues
- Breakup
- Bullying
- Career Choice
- Caregiver Issues / Stress
- Child and/or Adolescent Issues
- Codependency / Dependency
- Communication Problems
- Control Issues
- Depression
- Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
- Domestic Violence
- Elder Abuse
- Emotional Abuse
- Emotional Overwhelm
- Emptiness
- Family of Origin Issues
- Family Problems
- Fear
- Forgiveness
- Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
- Habits
- Health / Illness / Medical Issues
- Helplessness / Victimhood
- Inadequacy
- Individuation
- Infidelity / Affair Recovery
- Irritability
- Isolation
- Jealousy
- Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
- Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
- Mood Swings / Mood Disturbance
- Narcissism
- Obsessions and Compulsions (OCD)
- Oppositional and Defiant Behavior in Children and Teen
- Panic
- Parenting
- Perfectionism
- Phobias
- Physical Abuse
- Post Partum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress / Trauma
- Power
- Pre-Marital Counseling
- Rejection
- Relationships and Marriage
- Religious Issues
- Seasonal Affective (SAD)
- Self-Actualization
- Self-Care
- Self-Compassion
- Self-Confidence
- Self-Criticism
- Self-Doubt
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Love
- Sensitivity to Criticism
- Sexual Assault / Abuse
- Shame
- Social Anxiety / Phobia
- Somatization
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
- Trust Issues
- Values Clarification
- Women's Issues
- Workplace Issues
- Worry
- Worthlessness
- Young Adult Issues
- Other - Not Listed Here
Therapeutic Approaches & Evidence-Based Methods
- Anger Management
- Bibliotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Exposure Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Integration of different therapy models
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Journal Therapy
- Parent Work
- Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian Therapy)
- Positive Psychology
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Spiritual Counselling
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
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