Debra Campbell

With 20+ years in practice, Debra takes an eclectic therapeutic approach to individual, couples, and family therapy. She has an extensive background in sport psychology, positive psychology, couples counseling, psychodrama, and neuroscience. Debra takes a compassionate and active approach to helping her clients increase self-awareness, grieve losses, recognize patterns, constructively cope and optimize functioning. Her areas of expertise include elite domain performance, perfectionism, eating disorders, relationship issues, blended families, couples counseling, anxiety, depression and neurodiversity.

Debra is an expert in PACT Couples Counseling, a style of relationship counseling that helps couples build intimacy, improve communication and structure their relationships using attachment theory, affect regulation, neuroscience and social justice. She is one of approximately 50 PACT Certified Clinicians in the world and is often featured on the radio, podcasts, and social media. PACT is a method that successfully addresses the complexity of couples’ issues. Debra has served as a Brand Ambassador due to her passion for this method, often speaking publicly and writing for The PACT Institute. She is currently writing a book about expanding the application of the method to teams and organizations.

With her unique background in applied sport psychology and positive psychology, Debra has worked extensively with professional athletes, CEO’s, entrepreneurs, doctors, attorneys, and Olympic athletes. Her passion for getting clients to their optimal functioning was born out of her studies in elite domain performance and research on perfectionism. Previously, she has worked with the US Olympic Training Center, the US Figure Skating Association, the International Center for Talent Development, Spectrum Club (South Bay) and The Sports Club (LA).
As the visionary and co-founder of Curis, she is passionate about taking a systemic approach to mental health. Since symptoms do not always equate to source, to get lasting change we will explore beyond them. Debra has always been an avid consumer of research and higher education relating to the nervous system, neuroscience, sleep, exercise, genetics, endocrinology, nutrition, the microbiome and neurodiversity. Working with the intersection of these elements are common in her sessions.

Debra is concerned with using neuroscientifically correct mental health techniques to achieve lasting outcomes. For 6 years, Debra has trained in Psychodrama, one of the oldest and most effective methods in therapy. This style allows clients to actively explore their inner and outer world, allowing clients to leave session with new awareness. She also practices Emotional Transformation Technique, a progression of EMDR, that uses the sensory system to induce state dependent memory and resolve trauma. Even PACT Couples Therapy has a heavy emphasis on working with the nervous system.
Debra co-founded and sits on the board of the Relational Therapists of Dallas. She is the Past President of the Dallas Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Her research has been presented at regional and national conferences for the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP).