Dr. Deborah Gioia-Hasick
Compassionate, evidence-informed therapy for life challenges
LCSW, MD, LCSW-C California
- Experience
- 37 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Eating, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Deborah
Dr. Deborah Gioia-Hasick draws on a cognitive behavioral framework while integrating client-centered and mindfulness-based practices to address a wide range of concerns.
Background and approach
With 37 years of clinical experience, she blends evidence-informed techniques with a collaborative, motivational approach that helps clients explore goals and build practical skills for managing stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and trauma-related difficulties. Her background includes extensive work with young adults and families, including long-term clinical experience supporting people with serious mental illness and their family systems.
She has led groups and multi-family interventions focused on psychosocial education, symptom management, communication, and cognitive skills, and she brings that group experience into individualized treatment planning.
Her interests also include sexual health and sex therapy, vocational identity for young adults, climate-focused trauma and resiliency, and a broad set of presenting issues such as eating concerns, grief, intimacy challenges, sleep problems, parenting, and workplace stress. Dr.
Gioia-Hasick holds clinical social work credentials and an MD designation alongside a long history of teaching Master's and doctoral students in evidence-based methods including CBT, DBT, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. She works with clients in California and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Dr. Gioia-Hasick uses cognitive behavioral methods to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a practical approach often applied to anxiety, mood disorders, panic, and stress-related concerns. She also integrates client-centered strategies that emphasize understanding each person’s experience, fostering a respectful, collaborative relationship that supports exploration and personal goals. In addition, dialectical behavior therapy techniques are employed when emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance skills can aid recovery and day-to-day coping.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is shaped together with the client. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and then select or combine methods that best fit the situation, with motivational interviewing used to build readiness for change when appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to access consistent care from California. These formats support ongoing skill practice, check-ins between sessions, and scheduling that can adapt to work, family, or other commitments, helping clients maintain momentum toward their goals.
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Experience
37+ years
Licensed
Maryland, California
Languages
English