LOVE YOURSELF LOVE YOUR MARRIAGE

&

LOVE EVERY PART OF YOU

About Me

Every therapist who will be added to this team is special and was handpicked. Each person –

  • Holds a Master’s Degree and is licensed in Marriage & Family Therapy.

This is a critically important requirement. I’m not looking for Social Workers or Psychologists. Why? Because Marriage & Family Therapists are specialists in couples work. Further, they are trained to see people within their context so that their behavior always makes sense because of what they were up against. (Please see the “What We Value” tab for more on this.)

  • Must complete Internal Family Systems (IFS) in depth which includes online courses and Level 1 training officially recongnized by the IFS Institute
  • Must complete Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) which is the Couples version of IFS. It is considered an IFS Level 2 program.
DrDeb Hirschhorn

I am the Founder of Love Yourself Love Your Marriage.

Credentials

I graduated Nova Southeastern University’s doctoral program in MFT in 2001 after spending ten years doing research on emotional, verbal and physical abuse for my dissertation. I got my master’s degree from Drake University in 1978, having written a thesis about prison counseling. I did honors research abroad on the effect of the mental hospital culture on patient recovery while attending Queens College in New York. I graduated in psychology in 1970. I have been actively practicing in the field for 35 years.

I’ve had six articles published in peer-reviewed journals  and given presentations to other therapists, published and presented dozens of times to the public, edited the mental health section of a paper run by the Miami Herald, and was an editor for the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association. I am a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists [which is located at https://www.therapistlocator.net/tl/viewprofile.aspx?ID=26538] and before I moved out of Florida, I was an Approved Supervisor in Florida for Master’s level Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists.

I’ve completed basic and advanced hypnosis levels at the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. But the next exciting thing is I have completed the Level 1 training in Internal Family Systems.

I am licensed in New York. My New York license number is 004678. Go to http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm and click “mental health counselor” and then spell my name, last first, with no comma. Note correct spelling: HIRSCHHORN DEBORAH] – to check me out.

I have also completed Level 1 of IFS and Level 2 which is IFIO (see above). I am about to take an advanced course in IFIO.

What’s REALLY Important

I care. I take my time with each person’s needs. YOU’RE important to me!

And I get good results.