When divorce counselor Dr. Deborah Hecker moved with her children from New York to Washington, DC years ago, she didn't lose touch with her NYC client base. That's when she discovered the convenience of telephone counseling. "It was a natural evolution," she says. "I recognized it as a legitimate, efficient and highly effective medium for helping people, even those I've never met in person."

Today, Dr. Hecker runs a nationwide phone-counseling service for divorce recovery. With three decades of private psychotherapy experience, Dr. Hecker's divorce counseling has helped hundreds of people face their challenges and build successful lives.

Helping clients across the nation make it on their own

Divorce, says Dr. Hecker, "is more than a court order terminating a marriage. It's a life transition, full of unfulfilled dreams, profound grief, and new-found freedom." Her job is to assist divorcing people in letting go of former spouses and renewing their lives as singles. It's a journey she has undergone herself. "In hindsight, I wish I'd found someone who does what I do: get people through the emotional divorce recovery."

Dr. Hecker's style of divorce therapy combines compassion with directness. "I emphasize self-reliance: if you want something, nobody's going to come and give it to you," she says. "If clients are dancing around an issue, I'll tell them." But she is also kind and nurturing, empathizing with clients' feelings of despair while helping them accept their new status and understand that "there's nothing shameful about it."

An interdisciplinary approach to divorce counseling

With training in mediation and collaborative divorce as well as psychology, Dr. Hecker employs an interdisciplinary approach. "Attorneys and therapists have the same helping goal, but they speak different languages," she says. "Divorce lawyers can be aggressive, but clients' aggression may cause poor legal judgment. I move between legal and psychological perspectives to make them more compatible."

Dr. Hecker, who has been profiled in The Washington Post and Harper's Bazaar as well as on TV and radio, has also conducted research on attachment theory. "I understand the dynamics of the attachment and separation process," she explains. "I'm savvy about what a person has to go through to make it to the other side; that's how I successfully help other people transition."

The convenience of phone counseling

Telephone counseling has many advantages. "It's similar to traditional therapy in which clients lie down on a couch: if you're not looking your listener in the face, you're less inhibited," Dr. Hecker explains. "Research shows that when clients are at ease, they're less likely to guard themselves from talking about difficult topics."

Phone counseling is particularly ideal for divorcees who are used to sharing responsibilities and whose hectic and complex schedules can't meet the demands of travel time to an office. "People want convenience, and that's what this gives them. Phone counseling looks to be the wave of the future."

A unique practice

With a unique divorce-counseling practice that involves interdisciplinary skills and extra convenience, Dr. Hecker helps clients learn to work through grief, reinvent themselves, and create a balanced life. She loves "seeing people thrive in ways they never thought possible while going through divorce recovery".

Contact us today to start your divorce counseling by phone

For more information, or to schedule a free initial consultation with this divorce counselor, please contact:

 
(888) 777-3585
www.drdeborahhecker.com
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